m.p. jeremy corbin there in london talking to be a little earlier here naughty but with the u.s. cutting back its involvement in the airstrikes the mission is becoming hugely dependent on french jets but as artie's daniel bushell reports the longer the campaign lasts the more french people themselves are beginning to wonder about the reasons for the country's leading role. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watchers are questioning its justification for going in once again on what i call the imperial condominium a recurrent quest to africa already having long term connections on the continent paris called forgive colonel gadhafi for fighting its military in neighboring chad in the 1980's and challenging its corporations in the region ever since. is it a friend's party or or is it a sarkozy party see do it at least try to convince the. men in this capacity to be their leader of the g twenty. and also the way that it tried to survive in frost reports god was plotting an invasion already last year prompted a his ations of revived im

m.p. jeremy corbin says nato is assuming questionable goals in the area of the conflict to me yet end up splitting the oil producing country but we've become involved it is a civil war in libya and they all went disastrously wrong when they bombed an opposition military point i think it's very damaging but it underlines the lack of any clear purpose in this mission and the lack of any engagement we're involved in the civil war largely because of the vast amounts of oil that exist in eastern libya and i think the result will probably be a very easy partition of libya with a stalemate which will lead to constant conflict and calls numbers to the future there has to be some political solution to this otherwise the carnage will continue the losses will continue and western interests will increasingly look greedy eyes on these enormous oil reserves and the market opportunities of libya are going to see the libyan people bring about their solution without western interference or meanwhile susan lindauer who's a journalist and antiwar activist says the us was preparing your parade in the months before th