The Obama doctrine, the transnational elite and the NATO attack on Libya – A Commentary

The present war against Libya being carried out by the transnational political and economic elite, certified through their UN office and implemented by the US and NATO militaries, sends the message that the “civilized” world will especially not tolerate a regime which does not do as ordered. The run-up to the aggression against Libya initiates the “Obama doctrine” where America will no longer launch a war alone, but will lead the effort with its international partners to depose outdated friendly and unfriendly dictators. In fact, the Obama doctrine only recognizes formally the existence of a transnational elite and not just of an American Empire, as the reformist Left still talks about. The war declared on Libya to supposedly protect the Libyan people in fact aims to protect the interests and values of capitalist neoliberal globalization and to exploit untapped growth throughout the region. Libya is being forcibly integrated into the globalized market economy and the New World Order administered by the transnational elite (roughly the G7 and the international institutions controlled by it).