Libya's Imperial Hijacking is a Threat to the Arab Revolution
Submitted on August 26, 2011
By Seumas Milne - Znet
However glad people are to see the fall of the Gaddafi clan, it's clear that such intimate involvement of the US and the former colonial powers taints and undermines the legitimacy of Libya's transformation. They will expect a payback for their investment in the Libyan war: in oil and commercial deals, political support and perhaps even the return of western military bases...[I]f Libyans end up with the kind of democracy foisted on Iraq and Afghanistan...that will be no liberation at all.
