We are all fools on this planet. Fools for believing we have any advantage over this planet and fools for believing we can make this work.
Most of all, we are fools in love. Most of us do not get that love story we see on the movie screen, but all of us hope that we do. In fact, our expectations, as human beings living on this planet, for both physical and emotional survival, are very high, and only growing higher. Unfortunately the group I speak of is only a small percentage of the planet, because the majority of the people in this world are too poor, in need, or trodden that they couldn't care less about their more materialistic physical needs and their more philosophical emotional needs.
Its most unfortunate that we have left them all behind. The only people who seem to care, well, everybody seems to care, but very few seem to do anything about it. If I had to self-deprecate right now, I too, love to rant, talk about things, but my action on the ground is miniscule. I need, I want, to be a doer. Coming back to being the fool in love, that I can do easily apparently, but let me keep those thoughts to myself.
There were two thoughts in my mind recently. The first was the prevailing breakdown of governance in India, and the second about this thing called Operation Odyssey Dawn. If you look at the Wikipedia page of the military "intervention" in Libya, named Odyssey Dawn, it is quite similar to a lot of pages on recent battles/skirmishes/lopsided wars etc. There is a huge list of the coalition of the willing, and the intransigent government/dictator/ruler on the other side. Lets take a look at the belligerents, as the wiki page calls them - on one side we have the United States, United Kingdom (the wiki page does not list United Kingdom though, which I think is a serious oversight which strengthens the case against its authenticity), France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Greece and Denmark from Europe, and Qatar and UAE from the Middle East. On the other side is the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
You have got to admit though - the list of the coalition is quite impressive. After all, most of these nations are doing whatever they are doing under the flag of the United Nations, unlike the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which were American-led farces to appease their own population. Before I forget this thought, I just want to say one thing - the general American population has always been portrayed as this beacon of freedom and expression and all that, for example, protesting against their government, protesting against their government's decisions or whatever, but when was the last time they actually stopped their country from launching an attack on any other? My thought is not new actually, in fact, ironically, an American show brings out this quality clearly - we say something else and do something else. So while the US government will do whatever it takes to subvert the rest of the world, the American public will staunchly protest against it. And thats it. I suppose that could be a big ingredient in their overall global policy.
Most of all, we are fools in love. Most of us do not get that love story we see on the movie screen, but all of us hope that we do. In fact, our expectations, as human beings living on this planet, for both physical and emotional survival, are very high, and only growing higher. Unfortunately the group I speak of is only a small percentage of the planet, because the majority of the people in this world are too poor, in need, or trodden that they couldn't care less about their more materialistic physical needs and their more philosophical emotional needs.
Its most unfortunate that we have left them all behind. The only people who seem to care, well, everybody seems to care, but very few seem to do anything about it. If I had to self-deprecate right now, I too, love to rant, talk about things, but my action on the ground is miniscule. I need, I want, to be a doer. Coming back to being the fool in love, that I can do easily apparently, but let me keep those thoughts to myself.
There were two thoughts in my mind recently. The first was the prevailing breakdown of governance in India, and the second about this thing called Operation Odyssey Dawn. If you look at the Wikipedia page of the military "intervention" in Libya, named Odyssey Dawn, it is quite similar to a lot of pages on recent battles/skirmishes/lopsided wars etc. There is a huge list of the coalition of the willing, and the intransigent government/dictator/ruler on the other side. Lets take a look at the belligerents, as the wiki page calls them - on one side we have the United States, United Kingdom (the wiki page does not list United Kingdom though, which I think is a serious oversight which strengthens the case against its authenticity), France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Greece and Denmark from Europe, and Qatar and UAE from the Middle East. On the other side is the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
You have got to admit though - the list of the coalition is quite impressive. After all, most of these nations are doing whatever they are doing under the flag of the United Nations, unlike the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which were American-led farces to appease their own population. Before I forget this thought, I just want to say one thing - the general American population has always been portrayed as this beacon of freedom and expression and all that, for example, protesting against their government, protesting against their government's decisions or whatever, but when was the last time they actually stopped their country from launching an attack on any other? My thought is not new actually, in fact, ironically, an American show brings out this quality clearly - we say something else and do something else. So while the US government will do whatever it takes to subvert the rest of the world, the American public will staunchly protest against it. And thats it. I suppose that could be a big ingredient in their overall global policy.
Sorry, before I digressed into my rant, the point I wanted to make was that how is it taking this long to dislodge Gaddafi with such an impressive coaltion flying under the flag of the United Nations? From what I know, its not a full out war, and the UN (i'll call them UN and not NATO) planes are trying to bomb Gaddafi's tanks and other ammunition, while allowing the rebels to take a lead in regaining ground. So whats going on? Meanwhile, once again, the Americans demonstrate its always about them.
With the outcome still uncertain in Libya, it remains to be seen if Gaddafi will actually be thrown out. The bigger question arises then is where does Libya head to from here? I have not heard of any leadership in the Libyan rebel camp who could be said to be the face of the revolution. It seems the rest of the world is dictating, or rather, living vicariously, through the rebels right now! Of course, its for their own good, like they always say!
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