In Libya: Killing In The Name Of Peace

With its daily multiple missile attacks in Tripoli, NATO is sending a deadly message. On Tuesday, for example, as ear jarring explosions rocked the city with earthquake force, debris flew in every direction, while black billowing clouds of toxic smoke rose high into the skies darkening day into night. Red hot flames consumed buildings and severely burned anyone unable to flee from them.

This action NATO is taking to bring "pressure" on the Libyan government. But pressure for what? For new leadership? And if so, who will rule next? How and by whom will those rulers be chosen? How will order be established and maintained? What voice will the Libyan people have?

Four months ago when President Obama and NATO launched this war, Mr. Obama stated it was in support of the "rebels" and to prevent a massacre of the Libyan people. But that massacre is in full force as NATO unleashes Hell on earth to bring peace. Mr. Obama said there would be "no boots on the ground," but what about the boots of the Libyan people? Aside from the dead and severely injured Libyan men, women and children, how will the rest of the Libyans live? In this brutal chaos, how will they get food and other necessities? Assuming its hospitals aren't bombed, does Tripoli have enough hospitals and enough doctors and medicines to care for a bloodied populace?.

As their housing is being destroyed, where will the survivors live? Reportedly they are fleeing by the thousands, but to where can they flee where it's safe? What will become of their economy and their jobs? What about all the traumatized and frightened children, why must they suffer? What about all the orphaned children, who will care for them?

Despite President Obama's fantasy presentation, this is what war does. It destroys everything in its path. It is horrifically sickening as we saw in Vietnam which today is why the U.S. news media shows little of it to the American people. For if Americans could see what their war machine is causing in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, no-one would want to be associated with it.

In response, they might hold President Obama and Congress accountable for their actions. We as a people can sit silent while all this death and destruction takes place, as most Americans are doing or we can raise our voices on behalf of our fallen brethren and bring this killing to an end. What we do now tells our children and tells the world who we are as a people and what values we uphold.

Dick