{"id":956,"date":"2011-09-02T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=956"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:49:09","slug":"celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/celebration\/celebration.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/celebration\/celebration550w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A victory for the Libyan people?<\/strong> <em>D&#8217;ah ha ha ha ha ha hah,<\/em> nahh, I&#8217;m just givin&#8217; y&#8217;all some shit. Of course not. Gadhafi is claiming that the US, NATO, and their proxy &#8220;rebel&#8221; armies in Libya are still in for a &#8220;long war&#8221; and I, for one, hope he&#8217;s right &#8212; not because I don&#8217;t think that Gadhafi is a rat bastard, but because it would mean that Obama and the Cruise Missile Liberals would finally get their very own &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; albatross hung on them.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Maximilian C. Forte<\/strong> writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2011\/08\/31\/the-top-ten-myths-in-the-war-against-libya\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CounterPunch:<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Colonel Gaddafi has lost his military hold in the war against NATO and the insurgents\/rebels\/new regime, numerous talking heads have taken to celebrating this war as a \u201csuccess\u201d. They believe this is a \u201cvictory of the Libyan people\u201d and that we should all be celebrating. Others proclaim victory for the \u201cresponsibility to protect,\u201d for \u201chumanitarian interventionism,\u201d and condemn the \u201canti-imperialist left\u201d. Some of those who claim to be \u201crevolutionaries,\u201d or believe they support the \u201cArab revolution,\u201d somehow find it possible to sideline NATO\u2019s role in the war, instead extolling the democratic virtues of the insurgents, glorifying their martyrdom, and magnifying their role until everything else is pushed from view. I wish to dissent from this circle of acclamation, and remind readers of the role of ideologically-motivated fabrications of \u201ctruth\u201d that were used to justify, enable, enhance, and motivate the war against Libya\u2014and to emphasize how damaging the practical effects of those myths have been to Libyans, and to all those who favoured peaceful, non-militarist solutions&#8230; <strong><em>&gt;more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2011\/08\/31\/the-top-ten-myths-in-the-war-against-libya\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>11&#215;14 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/celebration\/celebration.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>medium-res color .jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 648kb<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A victory for the Libyan people? D&#8217;ah ha ha ha ha ha hah, nahh, I&#8217;m just givin&#8217; y&#8217;all some shit. Of course not. Gadhafi is claiming that the US, NATO, and their proxy &#8220;rebel&#8221; armies in Libya are still in for a &#8220;long war&#8221; and I, for one, hope he&#8217;s right &#8212; not because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,158,9],"tags":[376,317,377,100,378],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-obamarama","category-war-and-peace","tag-gadhafi","tag-libya","tag-nato","tag-oil","tag-oil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}