Does anyone know a good source on the shit that went down in Libya during the Obama administration? And what the country has turned into today? I only ever see one-off quotes about slave markets and the ghastly Hillary line: "We came. We saw. He died." Whenever I tried googling for material, right-wing sources would pop up.

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This should be a good first start;

    https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/119.pdf

    In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change. That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya. The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy