Consortiumblog: NATO Pushes 'Regime Change' in Libya

Friday, April 22, 2011

By Peter Dyer
April 22, 2011

The prospect of regime change in Libya is not so much “mission creep” as it is “mission leap.”

Peter Loeb said...: NATO AS INTEGRAL PART OF US

The "mission creep" did not
suddenly happen as if by surprise.

One may go back to NSC 68 signed
by Harry Truman in 1950 (see
Noam Chomsky's DETERRING DEMOCRACY
for detail; there are other sources
as well.)

An excellent analysis of the history and essential structure of
NATO can be found in the paperback
by historian Gabriel Kolko,
WORLD IN CRISIS: THE END OF THE
AMERICAN CENTURY, Chapter 3.
"Alliances and NATO", pp. 66-85.

The message is bipartisan.

In the late 1990's after the so-
called "Kosovo War", the Clinton
Administration indicated that
"'NATO could become a relic' if the
Europeans created a military organization...whose decisions
America could not control..." (Kolko, op cit p.67)

"...After September 11, however,
[the Bush Administration] told its
European allies that while they
could supply soldiers the US alone
would determine how and when they
would be used..." (Kolko, op cit
p.68)

email: peterloeb@yahoo.com; Sun Apr 24, 05:28:00 AM 2011

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