R2P = Right 2 Plunder
Submitted on August 30, 2011
By Pepe Escobar - August 30, 2011
...[A]s a vast, potentially very profitable new market for European companies...Libya is the genuine article, adding a whole new meaning to the humanitarian imperialist doctrine of R2P ("responsibility to protect")...Gaddafi is actually gambling that the joint NATO/GCC ops will turn Libya into the new Iraq/Afghanistan...It will force [NATO] to be even more entrenched in northern Africa. It will allow the use of the same old imperial divide-and-rule tactics while Western companies exercise their Right 2 Plunder options.
