Spot the
similarities:
And the
lies:
The
Americans and Gaddafi now became locked together in a cycle of mutual
reinforcement. In the process, a powerful new image was created that
was going to capture the imagination of the West. Gaddafi became a
global supervillain, at the head of what was called a “rogue state”
– a madman who threatened the stability of the world. And Gaddafi
was loving every minute of it.
Then,
there was another terrorist attack at a discotheque in West Berlin. A
bomb killed an American soldier and injured hundreds. The Americans
released what they said were intercepts by the National Security
Agency that proved that Colonel Gaddafi was behind the bombing and a
dossier that they said proved that he was also the mastermind behind
a whole range of other attacks. President Reagan ordered the Pentagon
to prepare to bomb Libya. But again, there were doubts – this time,
within the American Government itself. There were concerns that
analysts were being pressured to make a case that didn’t really
exisτ, and to do it, they were taking Gaddafi’s rhetoric about
himself as a global revolutionary and his manic ravings and then
re-presenting them as fact. And, in the process, together, the
Americans and Gaddafi were constructing a fictional world.
The
European intelligence agencies told the Americans that they were
wrong, that it was Syria that was behind the bombing, not Libya. But
the Americans had decided to attack Libya because they couldn’t
face the dangerous consequences of attacking Syria. Instead, they
went for Gaddafi, a man without friends or allies.
R.I.P
poor Libya. Careful North Korea, it’s your turn ... again.
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