war games by france on libya - stupid and dangerous

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Stupid and DangerousWar Games by France on Libya

A famous adage says that those who live in glass houses donot throw stones at others.

France will learn the thousand years old teaching rather hardway. The France took surprising initiative and in its pursuit toappease the United States, it spearheaded massive air attack on Libya with 15 war planes. President Obama, conscious of the folly committed by its so called "ally" quietly sided awaysaying that he would let the Europeans handle the situation(war games) and US would play only a supporting role.


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Anil Selarka War Games by France on Libya P a g e | 2

French President Niclolas Sarkozy with Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State

Arab world and Libyans were skeptical of American intentionto launch Air Attack in the name of implementing "no flyzone".

Only a few years ago, President Bush and Tony Blair of UKhailed the spirit of Col Gadaffi when he settled thecompensation of Libya engineered Air Disaster with massivepayment of $2.7 billion to 270 victims of PanAm F103. Libyawas re-admitted to United States fold, and its credit ratingwas also raised as result in international financial circle.

However, those impressions were short lived. Col Gadaffiagain re-emerged as undemocratic dictator and a terrorist who wanted to destroy the civic liberties of its fellowcountrymen and in fact was seen as butchering them withbullets and bombs. Switch OFF by President Bush yesterday &Switch ON by President Obama today.


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Arab world was stunned with dismay and utter disbelief. Howcould Americans be trusted again? The British and Europeansjoined the Americans once more in the war game exercise.

France had no real enmity with the Libya. Infact, it signed many lucrative arm deals inrecent past with same person - Col Gadaffi -who is hated now with contempt for noreason. The game of War Lords is neverunderstood by the ordinary persons.

France spearheaded the campaign and promptly sent over 15war planes that quickly attacked the Col Gadaffi's place of stay. US promptly said that it was not the intention of thecoalition to kill Col Gadaffi. So what was the intention? You donot throw the 2000 pound bombs at some one's residencewith a view not to harming him! Who is going to believe them?

France acted very hastily. There was no reason for itsexuberance and rationale. United States was nearly 10,000miles away from Libya and still did not want to take theleadership. France took the lead against Libya, a Muslimcountry known for vicious attack on civilian airplane inrevenge, which was just 900 miles (1500 kms) away, a stonethrowing distance in military terms. It appears that Francewanted to appease the Americans at the tremendous risk of its own nation's safety.

The quake in Japan and ensuing Tsunami that nearlydestroyed the Nuclear Reactors in Japan, are found"transmitting the radiation all around with little means tocontrol them, is a very recent event in memory.

France is the largest operators of Nuclear Power Plants in theworld with 59 of such plants. It is also the largest exporter of the electricity generated from such Nuclear Power Plants


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(NPP) to the neighboring nations such as Britain, Italy,Belgium, Netherland and Germany.

The President Nicolas Sarkozy of France also forgot that hisnation was just 900 miles or 1500 kilometers or at about 1hour away by Fighter Air Plane. It was therefore most vulnerable to attack from revengeful Libyan ruler Col. Gadaffi.By attacking Libya without any direct cause, it exposed 59Nuclear Power Plants to the potential attack by Col Gadaffiwho was at stone throwing distance away

Col Gadaffi is a Muslim ruler. He is an Arab too. He lost his sonin the past at the hands of American bomb attack a few yearsago. His religious teaching would never allow him to forget orpardon the attackers who killed his son.


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The Islamic justice calls for "eye for eye" and that is how theIslam operates, be it in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,Palestine, Gaza strips or Lebanon. Bahrain, Yemen and SaudiArabia are also not excluded.

The French President did not even consider what wouldhappen to entire Europe if Col Gadaffi attacks any or many of its nuclear facilities producing power or electricity. He cannot protect with care as many as 59 targets - they are too diversein attention. See the map on next page.

When he cannot manage the defense, he should not haveopted for the offence and that too without any provocation tothe France or any of its close allies. It is easy to get into thewar but difficult to get out. Iraq and Afghanistan are stark examples.

It can be observed that almost all Nuclear Power Plants arewithin the fire range of the Libyan Air Force. They areMuslims and would not hesitate to blow themselves away forthe cause of Islam. They can act with similar passion withwhich the Japanese attacked the Americans with theiringenious practice called " Hara kiri" that was later adaptedwith grand success by Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka and Al Qaedain Iraq, Afghanistan and hosts of other places

If only one plant is seriously damaged, it may expos entireEurope to unthinkable risk of radiation with devastatingeconomic effects. All nuclear reactors were stopped in Japanat the slightest hint of damage. Now think of it, if one of thenuclear reactors in France is affected, it will shut out theelectricity not only in entire France but also in major citiesand countries surrounding its borders such as Belgium,Netherland, London (UK), Italy, and part of Germany.


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Nuclear Power Reactor facilities in France as above

There would be massive black out in those countries as well,with the result that their economy will come to a screechinghalt at most critical juncture of recovery from recession.

Further, almost entire Europe and its commercial air lineoperations come within the closest range of Libyan fire power.They have done it before, and if they feel threatened of theirexistence and driven to the wall, they are capable of shootingdown many passenger airliners carrying US, British andFrench flags. It can play havoc in the realm of world peace. Anatmosphere similar to World War III might arise in such case.

Some Facts (within quotes) about French Nuclear PowerPlants: Source : World Nuclear Association.Web link: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html
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France derives over 75% of its electricity from nuclearenergy. This is due to a long-standing policy based onenergy security.

France is the world's largest net exporter of electricitydue to its very low cost of generation and gains overEUR 3 billion per year from this.

France has been very active in developing nucleartechnology. Reactors and fuel products and services area major export.

It is building its first Generation III reactor and planninga second.

About 17% of France's electricity is from recyclednuclear fuel.

In 2007 French electricity generation was 570 billion kWhgross, and consumption was about 447 billion kWh - 6800kWh per person. Over the last decade France has exported60-80 billion kWh net each year and EdF expects exports tocontinue at 65-70 TWh/yr, to Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain,Switzerland and UK. Imports are relatively trivial.

France has 58 nuclear reactors operated by Electricite deFrance (EdF), with total capacity of over 63 GWe, supplyingover 430 billion kWh per year of electricity (net), 78% of thetotal generated there. Total generating capacity is 116 GWe,including 25 GWe hydro and 26 GWe fossil fuel. Peak demand is about 96 GWe.

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Disenchantment of Arab WorldThe Arab League which approved the "No Fly Zone" quicklyretraced and qualified the approval that it was not meant toapprove direct military actions by the US led forces with its


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allies. It is possible that these nations having seen frequent sanctions and military actions of extreme nature in the nameof United Nations might decide to suspend their UNmembership or get the hell out of there. It would causeunprecedented crisis of epic proportion in the history of United Nations. It would begin to break up.

The present conflict in Libya and interference in other Arabnations such as Bahrain and Yemen is likely to polarize theArab World and Western World. It comes at a time whenalmost all western powers are financially weak and extremelyvulnerable. They cannot afford to make more enemies.

Benefits to Al Qaeda and other Islamic Hard Liners The forces of Al Qaeda will find friends and financiers in Libya,Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia with larger than beforemonetary assistance in billions of dollars besides the place forconcealing their clandestine activities of violence and terror.This comes at a time when the world is gripped in anotherreign of terror - from the Nature - which has causedenormous damage in New Zealand and recently in Japan.

Western Powers may have to reconsiderit is important that the politicians in almost all westernnations pay close attention to the recent events and refrainfrom taking precipitate actions without full deliberations.Military intervention into any Middle-East or Islamic nationat slightest opportunity may be viewed by the Muslim worldwith distrust and take them away from any process of reconciliation.

Anil Selarka, Author, 22/3/2011Copyrights by Anil Selarka (also known as Kalidas)email: [email protected] Financial Blog: http://anilselarka.com Author Subprime Resolved http://subprimeresolved.com
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