Operation Oil Theft: Day 3.

In an attempt to Islamify the military action against Libya it has been announced that Qatar is to send 4 fast jets to join the conflict. It is not yet clear how Muslims who are not members of the Qatari Royal family will react to the news. Meanwhile the United States have announced that in 2-3 days they are to hand over command of and cease military action against Libya. There are also rumours of rumours that we are about to see a significant change to US foreign policy because the current progressive-liberal interventionist set up appears to be doing more harm then good.

In Libya itself the ceasefire appears to be holding with both government and rebel forces respecting it. Foreign bombings missions however are continuing. The most significant of these incidents was a British cruise missile attack against Qaddafi's Presidential residence in Tripoli. Britain is claiming that this attack was an attack against a military command & control compound rather then a failed assassination attempt against Qaddafi. They have to say that though because a Chapter VII UN resolution does not allow for attacks against civilian political institutions or attempts to kill political leaders. In fact it explicitly prohibits them. Therefore if resolution 1973(2011) is being used to kill Qaddafi or collapse Libya's government it is invalid regardless of who voted for it in much the same way you can't take someone to court for a speeding offence and then have a jury convict them of murder.

However when you consider that various British government spokesmen have repeatedly stated that they have no interest in helping the Libyan people build a new government and the British and French authors of 1973(2011) inserted a clause that protects them from being called upon to send ground troops into Libya to carry out nation building this appears to be Britain's plan for Libya. They will bomb the nation until the government collapses and Qaddafi is killed. This will create a power vacuum and cause a tribal war. Britain will then go into the chaos and pay local warlords pennies on the dollar to pump oil out of the country via oil platforms that will be protected by private military security contractors. They won't even bother install a puppet government.

The only positive from the situation is that due to the actions of the Libyan rebels repressive governments across the world are learning that if they deny their people a rounded education and access to the outside world you end up with a dumb ass population and that can really backfire.