Since 2011, Libya has rapidly unraveled in much the way Iraq did following that invasion: swamped by militia rule, factional warfare, economic devastation, and complete lawlessness. And to their eternal shame, most self-proclaimed “humanitarians” who advocated the Libya intervention completely ignored the country once the fun parts — the war victory dances and mocking of war opponents — were over. The feel-good “humanitarianism” of war advocates, as usual, extended only to the cheering from a safe distance as bombs dropped. (...)
Far from serving as a model, this Libya intervention should severely discredit the core selling point of so-called “humanitarian wars.” Some non-governmental advocates of “humanitarian war” may be motivated by the noble aims they invoke, but humanitarianism is simply not why governments fight wars; that is just the pretty wrapping used to sell them. (Glenn Greenwald)
Toen Gaddafi's troepen in 2011 op het punt stonden Benghazi onder de voet te lopen en een vermoedelijke slachtpartij onder de bevolking aan te richten, of zuiveringen achteraf, wanneer Gaddafi's de opstand had neergeslagen, was ik vóór militair ingrijpen door het Westen.
