AP: Three years after US-NATO intervention, Libya is a failed state

HotAir ^ | 03-22-2014 | Morrissey

[PaulCruz2016]

An anniversary passed this week that went almost completely unremarked — and for good reason. March 17th marked the three-year anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution imposing a no-fly zone over Libya to stop the Moammar Qaddafi regime from attacking rebel-held Benghazi and Ajdabiya, and the three-year anniversary on the 19th of the NATO war on Libya. French, British, and American planes began bombarding the Qaddafi regime, an air war that would continue for months — while Barack Obama refused to request Congressional approval for it. Later, Obama would claim that Libya represented the smart model of Western intervention.

If so, why did these anniversaries pass unremarked? The Associated Press report on the status of Libya today gives a very good answer, although it is not written as such. Libya has become a failed state, where the government’s writ doesn’t run outside of its capital, and not even everywhere within that. Not only is it a dangerous place, but it is a danger to the surrounding nations in north Africa too:

Libya, where hundreds of militias hold sway and the central government is virtually powerless, is awash in millions of weapons with no control over their trafficking. The arms free-for-all fuels not only Libya’s instability but also stokes conflicts around the region as guns are smuggled through the country’s wide-open borders to militants fighting in insurgencies and wars stretching from Syria to West Africa.

[1010RD]

It wouldn’t be the first time nor will it be the last time idiots at State enthusiastically pushed the worst policy. Look at Bush’s Iraq debacle.

Rice, as Obama’s NSA, is just par for the course. She’s affirmative actioned well above her competency. She also proves that simply occupying a series of “prestigious” positions can’t cure stupid.

[Rome2000]

Truly frightening the collection of Harvard nutjobs calling the shots on foreign policy. Samantha Power is equally bonkers.

Their motivation has nothing to do with US interests, and guys like Putin see what hes up against in DC and knows there is nothing these bozos will come up with to stop them.

In fact, the only threat posed by this egghead Administration to Russia is that their imbecilic actions might cause Putin or his people to laugh themselves to death

[1010RD]

Harvard forms an echo chamber of elite thought. I watched a liberal celebrity complain about the Muslim control of universities in Iran. He wished they could be more like American universities. That they’re nearly identical in approach to “unorthodox” views didn’t occur to him or the liberal audience.