The Warfare State: Simultaneously Sowing and Harvesting Misery March 28, 2011

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 28, 2011

Every foreign military entanglement is an exercise in simultaneously reaping and sowing misery. The patently illegal war in Libya perfectly exemplifies this principle.

In 1969, the CIA manipulated a young Libyan military officer named Muhamar Gadhafi into power. Shortly thereafter, Col. Gadhafi turned on his benefactors and became one of the most notorious proponents of radical Arab nationalism in the region.

In 2003, the Bush administration rehabilitated Gadhafi?s regime, designating the dictator a valued ally in the war on terrorism. Libya?s small and inept military suddenly became a preferred client of the Pentagon, which directed lucrative subsidies toward Tripoli and began training the upper echelons of its officer corps.

Now, of course, the Pentagon is destroying many of the assets, both material and human, it had cultivated at taxpayer expense as part of a UN-declared war against Libya. And Washington?s allies in that conflict are Muslim rebels led by guerillas who got hands-on training by fighting against U.S. troops in the undeclared war in Iraq.

Washington thus is harvesting one bloody crop while nurturing the seeds of another.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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