Originally Posted by
etudiant
Libya used to have a stable dictatorship which was temporarily cooperative with the West. The UK and France led the way to deposing that dictatorship, on the grounds that it threatened to slaughter the population of Benghazi. Now it is a huge mess.
The architects of this disaster have never been identified or called out, so they are probably still ensconced in senior roles making yet more dumb decisions. Don't expect a happy outcome.
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Damned if they did nothing and damned for what they did. Agree it's a mess - but would suggest the mess is also primarily of the making of a number of competing Islamic and other groups who are perfectly happy butchering each others civpop and would also happily to unite to butcher any "outsiders" who tried to impose any sort of order. It's easy - and lazy - to simply blame "the west".