@lamprey263 said:
And what should we have done? Nothing and not address the humanitarian crisis at the time? Put boots on the ground, cost us untold sums of money and lives, installed a puppet government? Instead we provided them weapons and provided them air support. In the end, we left the future of Libya in their own hands. I mean, which scenario would be better? Doing nothing? Putting boots on the ground and being dragged into a costly war? At what point should we have done something differently?
Sure, it's arguable that things were better under Gaddafi, but tell that to those that revolted against him. We responded to the situation that developed.
"And what should we have done? Nothing and not address the humanitarian crisis at the time?"
Under Muammar Gaddafi there was no humanitarian crisis NATO's/America's military intervention in Libya had caused the humanitarian crisis.
"but tell that to those that revolted against him."
Ah Yes you mean like fighters who had now left to the safety of the western countries? and the Gaddafi killer who is now living well off in some other western country not even caring whats happening in Libya? for your interest.
Khalifa Haftar
"Haftar held a senior position in the forces which overthrew Gaddafi in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war."
The GNC are the Islamic fundamentalist and their allies who rule Western Libya. Now the American gov wants to take out Khalifa Haftar as well and why? because he turned agaisnt GNC, the GNC is failing Libyans. And no the fighters doing any better.
"In the end, we left the future of Libya in their own hands. I mean, which scenario would be better? Doing nothing?"
Sometimes inaction is better then action because you never know the kind of pandora box's you might open. And as we had seen in Libya the Intervention in Libya resulted into a massive flow of migrants moving towards to Europe like a invasion.
Sometimes none interventionism is better if you don't meddle in affairs of countries that you dont know or pretend to know.
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