No Bombing Role for Canada in the Middle East
John Gleeson
I remember in March 2011 feeling proud of Canada’s air force. Flying their first bombing run in the NATO campaign to oust the government of Libya, two of our CF-18s abandoned the plan to drop their payloads on an airfield because it was evident there would be civilian casualties.
The next day we got with the program and Canada played its modest part in the NATO overthrow of one of Africa’s most prosperous nations. We learned later that the so-called rebels we supported prominently featured Al-Qaida-linked mercenary types – a favourite regime change tool for western Intelligence (see French journalist Thierry Meyssan’s latest article, “The French Republic taken hostage,” on www.voltairenet.org/en; Meyssan was an eyewitness to the Libyan horror show).
Tens of thousands of people killed, Libya utterly destroyed, the whole region destabilized, North African migrants and refugees pouring into Europe to escape their respective hellholes – the fruits of regime change are indeed bitter.
With Libya taken out, the same formula was applied to Syria. When an all-out attack was being prepped two years ago, based on claims (now discredited) that the Syrian government was gassing its own people, the public in the U.K. and U.S. sent a strong message to their politicians that they didn’t want to be dragged into another war in the Middle East. With the help of Russian diplomacy, war was averted.
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