Reply #27: As another poster said, we need more crayons

[makhno]

How do you make the leap from someone's pointing out issues with NATO operations and questioning the motivations behind Western intervention to the poster's portraying the Libyan insurrection as evil? Your refusal to acknowledge the existence of the many interests and actors with differing motivations represents the very archetype you purport to condemn in your posts. Taking TNC communiques at face value while ignoring the fact that there is no centralized, well-disciplined military structure on the insurgents' side that would apply the promises made to appease Western bien-pensants is, at best, disingenuous.

I have yet to see a post that condemns Libyan insurgents for their fight against the tyranny of the Gaddafi regime. Some of us simply refuse to buy into the simplistic narrative being put forward by the media, primarily because it has the familiar stench of the kind of propaganda we were fed in the lead up to prior imperialist adventures.

It is truly deplorable that one would consciously decide to turn a blind eye to NATO's growing record of collateral damage by claiming that the other side is no better. Libyan government forces' use of cluster mortar rounds and mines does not morally justify the deployment of similar types of munitions against poorly designated targets by NATO and insurgent forces. Forcing migrants onto unseaworthy boats does not excuse NATO's criminal behavior in ignoring the law of the sea. The "silence" you might hear is simply frustration at the moral ambiguity that permeates any discussion of the Libyan civil war.