Monday 2 October 2017

In The End They Kill Each Other

I've also been reading a little book on Italy's short lived colonization of Libya.
It all started around 1911. Italy picked a fight with the Turks and then took over the Turkish Libyan provinces. Some of the locals did not care for the Italians so the Italians shot, gassed, hanged and bombed them.
Out of a population of about 800,000, some 80,000 died as a result of the Italians civilizing mission, through violence, famine and disease.
Indeed, in 1911, Libyans were the first  to be on the receiving end of  humanitarian bombing, the centenary of which was so joyfully celebrated by NATO bombers slaughtering thousands more Libyans in 2011.
All the European imperial powers gaily slaughtered the locals under their command, even the British, from time to time. As Mr. Trump told the Americans (brave, brave) we didn't just kill bad people.
Once the Europeans got used to murdering foreigners they turned on each other in two wars of mass destruction.