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Weird that when we destroy a government and replace it with nothing infrastructure goes unmaintained.
by 26fingies 3y ago
Weird that when we destroy a government and replace it with nothing infrastructure goes unmaintained.
- meepmorp 3y agoThe dams were unmaintained for years before the Qadaffi government fell.
- bannedbybros 3y ago[dead]
- scroblart 3y agoEven the nyt is willing to admit that work had begun on the dams before NATO started bombing, they feel obligated to let that tiny crack of truth in
- dredmorbius 3y agoIn 1986, a major storm convulsed the region, damaging the dams and shearing soil from the ground. The structures were damaged, Dr. Ashoor said, but again they held. Despite the stresses, repairs were minimal. In 1998, the Libyan government commissioned a study that revealed cracks and fissures in the dams, said Attorney General Sadiq al-Soor. Nearly 10 years later, a Turkish company was finally contracted to repair the dams, the prosecutor added. But the government dragged its feet in paying, and the project got underway only in 2010... Just four months later, in 2011, Libyans marched against Colonel el-Qaddafi’s 42-year grip on power... In the tumult, work on the dam ceased... From TFA. Neglect has accrued over 37 years. Only 12 have elapsed since the fall of Qaddafi. NATO's direct involvement was for a brief period in 2011.
- landemva 3y ago> NATO's direct involvement was for a brief period in 2011. And USA's direct involvement in Nagasaki Japan by dropping Little Boy was for a brief period on August 6 1945. https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/little-boy-and-fat-man https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/little-boy-and-fat...
- mikewarot 3y ago"After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state. Between 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms." [1] [1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconst... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Resurrecting-Nagasaki-Reconstruction-Narratives-Weatherhead/dp/1501714961 https://www.amazon.com/Resurrecting-Nagasaki-Reconstruction-...
- landemva 3y agoLikewise has NATO been rebuilding Libya for the past decade and repairing infrastructure such as dams?
- 26fingies 3y ago> But the government dragged its feet in paying, and the project got underway only in 2010... Just four months later, in 2011, Libyans marched against Colonel el-Qaddafi’s 42-year grip on power... In the tumult, work on the dam ceased... You yadda yadda'd the part where NATO destroyed the government.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoAnd if we had done nothing and let Khadaffi commit genocide you'd be complaining about it too. The West just can't win. Everything is our fault.
- dathos 3y agoThis is a terrible argument, the human suffering caused by “the West” trying to play police of other countries is insane. Name one time the US has intervened (outside of WW2) that helped the local population without causing a way bigger problem
- bell-cot 3y agoMaybe ask a few South Koreans about that? Or folks who lived in West Berlin during the blockade, or ...
- LindeBuzoGray 3y ago> Maybe ask a few South Koreans about that? Like who, the hundreds of civilians the US massacred at No Gun Ri ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre )? Or all the other civilians shot and bombed by the US Air Force, as internal documents and testimony attest to? Or the firebombing of cities by the US air force? Or the rapes and murders US military personnel have carried out in South Korea in the past decades? Or the decades of dictatorship in South Korea that the US military occupation shored up?
- bell-cot 3y agoMight I ask if you're South Korean, or familiar with how much worse things have generally been in the DPRK?
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoReminder: South Korea was a dictatorship into the late 1980s.