It’s a TOTAL war, monsieur http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MI03Ak01.html

The winners of that “kinetic” thing in northern Africa (the Barack Obama administration swears it’s not a war) – collectively described as Friends of Libya (FOL) – were all in a jolly mood as they gathered in Paris on Thursday, with no air-conditioning but potent odors of runny Brie and Roquefort, to gloat about their United Nations-sanctioned, North Atlantic Treaty Organization-implemented “operation” for regime change in Libya. Call it the FOL war; the R2P war (as in “responsibility to protect” Western plunder); the Air France war; the Total war; anyway, the FOL had a blast spinning their win.

The Great Arab Liberator, neo-Napoleonic President Nicolas Sarkozy, gloated, “We have aligned with the Arab people in their aspiration for freedom.” Bahrainis, Saudis, Yemenis, not to mention Tunisians and Egyptians, have every right to be puzzled. Sarko added, “Dozens of thousands of lives were spared thanks to the intervention.” Even the “rebels” are spinning there are at least 50,000 dead, with NATO still hooked on a wild bombing spree.

The emir of Qatar at least admitted that on-the-run Muammar Gaddafi could not have been toppled without NATO. But he added that the Arab League could have done more; in fact it did – by providing a bogus vote that opened the way for the Anglo-French-American redacted UN Resolution 1973. Transitional National Council (TNC) interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril asserted, “The world bet on the Libyans and the Libyans showed their courage and made their dream real.” “World” now means NATO and a bunch of regressive Persian Gulf monarchies. As for the rest, shut up.