If you’ve been watching the news recently, you are now a witness of the death sentence of the Libyan uprising and the struggle for life by the people of Japan
Okay, maybe death sentence is a bit too harsh, but the fact remains that the world has become torn between a revolution and a nuclear crisis.
Today, Libyan rebels were forced back to their last stronghold; many of them are upset with the sheer abandonment of them by the west. Some have declared that they are standing and that they are going to fight till the end. The others are packing their bags and heading to the nearest border.
The villain in all of this, as all of us know is Muhammad al-Gaddafi or as I like to call him (thanks to a YouTube channel’s creativity) Evil Carlos Santana.
If you’ve seen the Dark Knight, there is a scene where the Joker and Batman are about to go head to head, Batman is on his bike and the Joker is ambling towards him shouting “Hit me! Come on I want you to hit me! Hit Me! HIT ME!
At this point, Batman slides missing the Joker and hits a wall. It goes on from there but it doesn’t show my point. The point is that Gaddafi, the cocky pig that he is; is goading the ENTIRE world to come and get him for what he’s doing. But nothing is happening
If you look at the news, they have the US by the throat with the fear of not giving them oil; they’re threatening Sarkozy saying that he accepted Libyan funding in his presidential campaign. The most irritating thing though is how arrogant Gaddafi’s son is, he has been announcing to the world how this uprising will be over in 48 hours, how the West won’t make a move at them because at the end, when they win, the US will have to grovel to get oil.
I don’t know about you, but I’d love to have a shot at him and knock him into the stone-age.
10 years ago the world was witness to an unspeakable act of terror, 9/11. The following year, the US declared war on Iraq, with ‘evidence’ of WMD’s and Saddam financing the Taliban. The world objected and cried foul as they washed over the country and toppled his regime as the much publicised ‘Police force of the world’.
Now a country is fighting amongst itself with one side, screaming for attention from the world, and yet nothing has been done for a month.
That’s right; this has been going on for a month.
Now, 8 days into the talks on the implementation of a no-fly zone, the US has suddenly woken up and said, that a no-fly zone must be implemented and maybe something more...
Wait, am I the only one that sees the US trying to find a way out of Libyan airspace and onto Libyan soil?
Am I the only one that sees the Déjà Vu in all of this?
While this budding conflict brews in the middle-east, another sort of crisis is churning in the Pacific as Japan struggles with the problems of everything post-earthquake related, the biggest problem being naturally the Fukushima power plant, something that could become a huge problem for Japan and all their citizens and eventually the rest of the world.
The contrast is amazing, in one corner you have a civil war as two sides are fighting for their ideals, whether it is for more freedom or keeping what exists intact, it’s a bloody mess. Then there is Japan, a nation that has time and time again taken the world to school when it comes to the working together for the greater good.
What I is completed justified, just look at what has happened in Japan, they got hit by one of the worst ‘quakes in history, most people would panic and riot to get supplies, the Japanese stood in line, not because they wanted too, but because they knew that there are others that are in the same situation as them. They are helping one another in a way we cannot possibly comprehend, the compassion and ideals that the Japanese are demonstrating are down-right spectacular.
And while the world watches the two parallels, a group of rebels fighting a sadistic overlord or a brave group of men who charge into a radioactive power plant to help the nation and the world, we simply sit up while watching it unfold on a screen.
One side fighting for ideals, splitting a nation in two. While the other side fights for their very survival, throwing out ideals and political opinions for that chance at life.
I think it’s time for the world to put on its Big Boy Pants.
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