Tripoli: WHERE ARE OUR BLUE HELMET PEACEKEEPERS?

Tripoli: WHERE ARE OUR BLUE HELMET PEACEKEEPERS?

(a plea, a rant)

Thursday, Feb. 24/11

I was so upset watching the barbaric rampage being inflicted in the streets of Tripoli I had trouble sleeping last night.

Obama gave a milquetoast speech while the blood of hundreds – thousands – flowed. Obama looked like an ineffectual relief teacher, admonishing a spitball hurling class clown, while AK47-toting mercenaries took target practice on innocent people. I lost it at 3 AM and started shouting obscenities at the gormlessness I was witnessing on the tv screen.

WHY AREN’T UN PEACEKEEPERS SAVING THE CITIZENS OF TRIPOLI?

This could be Canada’s chance to again shine internationally – to step into the breach and become the saviour of the people of Tripoli? Why not send in Canada’s famed and respected Blue Helmet Peace keeping troops? In a blink Harper’s ongoing obsequious behind-licking of the yankee-doodle empire might be erased and international respect for Canada restored.

Silly, stupid wishes … that the yanks, the biggest bully in the international schoolyard, or the lackeys Canadians have become for them, would intervene. The Yankee empire is only interested in its self-interests. It was almost acceptable for the Yanks to stand idly by while their bought and paid for dictator, Mubarak, was deposed by the populist uprising in Egypt. They fence sat as long as decorum would allow – after all, the weaponry in the hands of the dictator’s army was all stamped ‘made in USA’, and the Yanks had supported his corrupt dictatorship with billions of dollars.

But in this murderous situation in Tripoli, The UN, the Yanks (yipes) or even we lackey Canucks could send in a relatively small number of highly trained troops and impose sanity.

But mostly what I’m hearing is concern that our gasoline has gone up 10 cents a liter today. Oh, and that oil is a good spot for business speculation … and yeah, maybe we’d better start thinking about getting our own citizens out of the fray …

Please, planet citizens, show some humanity. When you have the power to stop a crazed bully like Gadhafi from murdering his own people, why not use this power?

Chris Faiers
Marmora, Ontario
Canada

A shortened version of article is in the current NOW Magazine (a large circulationToronto entertainment guide)  as a letter-to-the-editor:
HAS THE UN ABANDONED LIBYA?
March 3 - 10, 2011
Vol. 30   No. 27