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Originally Posted by ElProximo

No.
The reason is not oil.

It's amazing to me how many people love coming online (or on television) and (as if in the know) feel they just need to say the word 'Oil'.

Since I live in a region producing massive amount of oil and have family who worked in the oil business in Libya then lets try and understand a really basic thing in life:

Libya has to sell its oil. It doesn't matter who runs that place. They WILL CONTINUE selling oil.
Right now it's dictator sells massive amounts of oil at highly controlled and regulated prices.

If he is eliminated and Mohammad Mohammad King of the Rebels becomes Grand Poobah then guess what?
He will be selling that oil.

Makes no damn difference to us whatsoever.

Outstanding doublethink at work here. You admit he has a great amount of control over his country's oil prices yet you think corporations and NATO's member states have nothing to gain from this. Arab oil states could hold us to ransom if they so wanted. The OAPEC oil crisis of early 70's perfectly illusrates how much power you have when you control the supply of oil. We are now experiencing yet another supply shock in the wake of the Arab Spring. The Libyan intervention is cynical opportunism writ large. NATO are not doing this out any humanitarian concern. It is an act of damage limitation due to our current ciircumstance. If we don't intervene, rising oil prices will continue to affect our national interests together with the inevitable surge of North African refugees in Europe.

In both Yugoslavia and Libya, NATO took sides on a civil war which didn't concern them. The side they is the one which represents the interests of Western imperialism.

Originally Posted by ElProximo

The only possible problem could happen if some morons get in there who (somehow) try and shut down production or refuse to sell it.
Which would be STUPID for them.
Obviously.
Even a stupid Jihad moron leader easily gets the idea of having MASSIVE CASH GIVEN TO THEM.
And EVEN IF that happened you need to understand that other oil-producers just up their production.

You're half-right. Neither scenario is possible. As soon as the conflict in the Middle East simmers down and some normality returns to oil trading in the region, oil supply will in a state of terminal decline. Mark my words.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...our-government

Originally Posted by ElProximo

If this was only about oil then the best case scenario is this idiot stays dictator and keeps selling massive amounts of oil.

So no. This is not about oil. Sorry that ruins a lot of peoples 'insider wink' thing,
but, if you just think of this for 1 minute you can see, quite obviously, it is not about oil.

So then what is it about? What made Libya an urgent case for humanitarian intervention when people have gone on dying in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Burma for years? What was so much more horrible about Gaddafi's war with local rebels than recent government crackdowns in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria? What other possible reason could we be there for?