Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Everyone says the Libya intervention was a failure. They’re wrong (Shadi Hamid, Brookings)

People take part in a demonstration against the country's parliament and in support of the coalition of fighters called the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, at Freedom Square in Benghazi August 29, 2014. The demonstrators also protested against what they said was the intervention of the United Arab Emirates into Libyan domestic policy. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Libya and the 2011 NATO intervention there have become synonymous with failure, disaster, and the Middle East being a "shit show" (to use President Obama’s colorful descriptor). It has perhaps never been more important to question this prevailing wisdom, because how we interpret Libya affects how we interpret Syria and, importantly, how we assess Obama’s foreign policy legacy.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/04/12-libya-intervention-hamid
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