Obama did destroy Libya. Is your point that it was better to turn Libya into a country with open-air slave markets and massacre thousands of people, or is your point that it’s better than the Iran War because it didn’t backfire as splendidly?
Leaving out the context that Libya was in a civil I’ll war and actively killings its citizens. This actually had some stated purpose.
Whether it wouldve been better to not intervene we can’t know but what we do know is based on his actions and words have stayed consistent since he’s been in office. It give you an idea of his intentions.
This was when retired four star general and former NATO commander, Wesley Clark, disclosed a plan circulating around the Pentagon in 2001 to attack 7 countries in 5 years. The countries named mirror the ones targeted by the PNAC group, as Iraq, Syria, Iran and Libya were all listed in addition to Lebanon, Somalia and Sudan.
Libya had some of the highest living conditions in the region under Gaddafi. While it wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it is now a failed state. The reason the US murdered Libya was because Libya was sovereign and preventing the penetration of US capital. Obama wasn’t trying to kill a bad guy or anything, he and the imperialist class wanted to plunder Libya.
Obama did destroy Libya. Is your point that it was better to turn Libya into a country with open-air slave markets and massacre thousands of people, or is your point that it’s better than the Iran War because it didn’t backfire as splendidly?
And wondered why soldiers drone-bombing civilians from the comfort of air-conditioned offices, thousands of miles away, got PTSD.
Exactly!
Leaving out the context that Libya was in a civil I’ll war and actively killings its citizens. This actually had some stated purpose.
Whether it wouldve been better to not intervene we can’t know but what we do know is based on his actions and words have stayed consistent since he’s been in office. It give you an idea of his intentions.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-neoconservative-hit-list-iraq-libya-and-now-syria-a-plan-for-global-us-military-supremacy/5407538
Libya had some of the highest living conditions in the region under Gaddafi. While it wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it is now a failed state. The reason the US murdered Libya was because Libya was sovereign and preventing the penetration of US capital. Obama wasn’t trying to kill a bad guy or anything, he and the imperialist class wanted to plunder Libya.