If
the paeans to McCain by diverse political climbers seems detached
from reality, it’s because they reflect the elite view of U.S.
military interventions as a chess game, with the millions killed by
unprovoked aggression mere statistics.
by
Max Blumenthal
Part
3 - ‘They are Not al-Qaeda’
When a
violent insurgency swept through Libya in 2011, McCain parachuted
into the country to meet with leaders of the main insurgent outfit,
the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), battling the government of
Moamar Gaddafi. His goal was to make kosher this band of hardline
Islamists in the eyes of the Obama administration, which was
considering a military intervention at the time.
What
happened next is well documented, though it is scarcely discussed by
a Washington political class that depended on the Benghazi charade to
deflect from the real scandal of Libya’s societal destruction.
Gaddafi’s motorcade was attacked by NATO jets, enabling a band of
LIFG fighters to capture him, sodomize him with a bayonet, then
murder him and leave his body to rot in a butcher shop in Misrata
while rebel fanboys snapped cellphone selfies of his fetid corpse.
A
slaughter of Black citizens of Libya by the racist sectarian militias
recruited by McCain immediately followed the killing of the
pan-African leader. ISIS took over Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
while Belhaj’s militia took control of Tripoli, and a war of the
warlords began. Just as Gaddafi had warned, the ruined country became
a staging ground for migrant smugglers on the Mediterranean, fueling
the rise of the far-right across Europe and enabling the return of
slavery to Africa.
Many
might describe Libya as a failed state, but it also represents a
successful realization of the vision McCain and his allies have
advanced on the global stage.
Following
the NATO-orchestrated murder of Libya’s leader, McCain tweeted,
“Qaddafi on his way out, Bashar al Assad is next.”
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