What if US-Saudi Libya Bahrain deal is true?
Editorial
Here is a description of the article published in Asia Times, “Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal”, by the writer Pepe Escebar, which is being reprinted across the blogosphere, including here at NC Home, simply because if it is true, our government has a lot of fessing up to do.
In the beginning, there was the great 2011 Arab revolt. Then, inexorably, came the United States-Saudi counter-revolution in a deal where the US gave the green light to Saudi Arabia’s invasion of Bahrain in return for Arab League support for the the Libyan no-fly zone. Revealed is the Barack Obama administration’s hypocrisy, selling a crass geopolitical coup as a humanitarian operation.
The most shocking allegation, if it can be substantiated, is very damning. “Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighborhood in exchange for a “yes” vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya – the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.”
Thus, the very serious question, “What if it’s true?”
LIKE IT OR NOT if true, we have to know it and get to the bottom of it.
Well, if it is true, then the people of the United States of America and the world are owed an explanation, an apology, and there are people at the top who are going to have to be held accountable. This is not just serious. This is extremely serious and cannot be overlooked. The closed door backroom deals which we saw so many of during the Bush administration must stop rather than continue under Obama. The potential implications are enormous. However, before we rush to judgment, we need to ask the serious questions rather than turn a blind eye, and we must demand answers.
Editor
I think that if it is true that the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a deal with Saudi Arabia, such as “you help the monarch in Bahrain and we’ll go after Gaddafi”, and spent a quarter billion dollars of US taxpayer money to fire Tomahawk missiles, without Congress declaring war, and since the US was not under attack, then the US executive branch has lots of explaining to do to the American people.