He sums it all up nicely starting after 4:11.

My government decided to stay out of this mess for the time being, but just like the Turkish, they are already on the verge of joining the party. I was suprised -- and baffled, really -- by the enormous amount of pro-intervention articles by the media, both progressive and conservative, and the lack of hard information therein. The most commonly named reason for supporting the intervention was international standing and diplomatical reliability -- and they don't even realize what fucked up reasoning that truly is.

And the political odour of this entire activism by Sarkozy and Cameron, it just smells like the gents at the pub I was last week: both have serious domestic problems, so one can't help but think of Maggie Thatcher's eagerness about the Falkland War. Fukushima certainly didn't help those two either, both are strong proponents of nuclear power.

Laughland mentioned Kosovo. Remember how the war criminal Slobodan Milošević was removed from power by supporting the UÇK? What a merry band of democrats that was, Hashim Thaçi certainly is one hell of a posterchild. Carla Del Ponte, former prosecutor for the ICTY, published some very insightful articles about it over the years, but the ones I have at hand are in German. Despicable shit.

As for the intervention in Libya: Al Jazeera had some informative op-eds about it, eg. "The drawbacks of intervention in Libya" and "Libya intervention threatens the Arab spring". And, as usual, Greenwald: "The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya".

I had five more paragraphs of personal opinion, but I decided to remove that block of biased rambling.

@radx yea I am consistently disgusted by mainstream media's treatment of these types of conflicts. There were several major articles in the newspapers I read on Wednesday and all listed similar reasons to what you describe. I had to stop reading after a while, it's just too awful when you know that this "international standing" they are maintaining is really at it's core, hundreds and thousands of civilian deaths, political instability, a drop in living conditions for the country, and a reduction of freedom. Iraq is up over 100,000 civilian deaths last I checked. I was born in a small town of about 5,000, so that's 20 of my hometowns worth of people simply erased.

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