Cameron in Libya, Algeria: British Policy, American Muscle

February 2, 2013 • 10:04AM

British Prime Minister David Cameron ramped up British imperial presence in North Africa with a two-day whirlwind tour of Algeria and Libya on Jan. 30-31, where British policies have already succeeded in unleashing war, chaos, and terrorism. In fact, he was so blatantly imperial, that press traveling with him in Libya asked if he was Tony Blair all over again.

"The similarity is that any sensible modern British politician has to recognize that Britain has interests in the world and should look outwards and work with others for a more stable, secure and democratic world," Cameron confessed in Libya. "Where I think we need to learn the lessons of the past failures, is that helping other counties, intervening in other countries, is not simply about military intervention."

In both countries, Cameron promised British assistance in both security and intelligence. "There is no true freedom and no true democracy, without security and stability as well. We are committed to helping with that both here and also in your neighborhood," Cameron said at a news conference with Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. "We've agreed [on] a package of additional help from Britain to Libya — increasing the military training we are providing, increasing the police advisers ... We've also discussed how we can help build the institutional capacity of the new Libyan government." Cameron delivered a speech at a police training academy in Tripoli, traveling there in a heavily armed, 16-vehicle convoy, with a military helicopter escort and sharpshooters on roofs.

As part of the British strategy for the region, the U.S. reportedly secured agreement to station reconnaissance drones in Niger, which lies immediately to the east of Mali. "Niger has given the green light to accepting American surveillance drones on its soil to improve the collection of intelligence on Islamist movements," an unidentified source told Reuters, after a meeting of the U.S. ambassador to Niger with the country's president on Monday. The U.S. has been operating drones and other types of aircraft from a base in Djibouti, in East Africa, since 2002, but operating from Niger will be key for the whole northern region, which has been sunk into chaos, war, and terrorism with the murder of Qadafi, exactly as LaRouche warned would happen.