Remember 2011? It was the year before the election for Obama’s second term and the US used NATO to overthrow and kill Qaddafi….the excuse used to get involved was an age old one….a humanitarian crisis.
Most people will know very little about the country of Libya other than the Benghazi tragedy……that has gotten more press than a Kardashian.
Today there is major fighting going on all over the country…..three separate wars are raging…one against ISIS, one against rebels and one against what is called the “government”.
The recognized government is run by a CIA plant, a general Haftar, so that should help figure out who actually runs the country.
I bring all this up because the US has returned to using air power to help the “government”…..
The Pentagon has announced today that the US has begun conducting military airstrikes against Libya with the stated intent of defeating ISIS in that country. According to the Pentagon spokesman, the Libyan “Government of National Accord” requested that the US begin airstrikes against what they claim is an ISIS stronghold in the Libyan town of Sirte, the birthplace of murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Pentagon Spokesman Peter Cook has indicated that this is the beginning of a more sustained US air campaign against Libya and that each US airstrike is approved by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM).
Source: US Airstrikes Hit Libya To Bolster UN-Created Government – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
While the US set it sights on the “bad guys” there may be a new problem brewing which could start the whole Qaddafi process over again…..
Qaddafi’s son Seif will be released from prison…..will he want to re-do his father’s rule?
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, has been released from jail in Zintan, a town in western Libya, after spending nearly five years there since his capture in November 2011. After his father was killed on Oct. 20, 2011, by rebel groups that captured his hometown Sirte with NATO help, Seif tried to leave Libya.
In August 2015, the young Gadhafi was sentenced to death by firing squad by a Tripoli-based court. However, the sentence was not carried out and was condemned by Human Rights Watch that accused the self-proclaimed government of politicizing the courts.
Nearly five years after the Libyan city of Sirte was left in ruins following hundreds of NATO bombing raids and heavy fighting in the 2011 campaign to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Pentagon announced a major new US military escalation on 1 August against Daesh (Isis/Isil) terrorists who have reportedly made Sirte their prime Libyan stronghold.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said that US airstrikes were already underway in the coastal city of Sirte at the request of the Libyan government, and he further raised eyebrows among the press corps by adding that the air campaign did not have “an end point at this particular moment in time”.
Will sanity ever return?
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
This was another fubar. I hope the neocons and all those who are clueless, that they finally get it.The middle east is a different world with different values. They are not ready to become nor do they want to become a democracy as the west wants. We have invaded Iraq, toppled Saddam Hussein, babysat their government for years and it is a failed state with an ISIS presence; the US.avoided getting mired in with Syria but they kept pushing for the Syrian president’s ouster but now it is a failed state with millions of refugees flooding their neighbors and Europe and it has a strong ISIS presence; but then we tried messing with Libya by toppling Gaddafi. who had already taken steps to appease the west. Again, we have a failed state with a strong presence of ISIS.
Lesson to be learned:: We cannot go around toppling middle east leaders without dire consequences.
So true…..this will be yet another lengthy conflict with us in the middle….chuq
At this point, I would have to say “NO”.
Most of my Libyan connections (who went back to Libya prior to Gaddafi Duck getting whacked) have since returned to the various parts of the world where they previously lived. (You know, before they made a conscious decision to travelling back home to try and save their Motherland.)
Muammar Gaddafi, in the end, was as evil as: Adolf Hitler
Libyans world-wide were returning and poised for a concerted revolt. The US, as always, needed to be Johnny on the spot. And. of course, we see the after effects of their Dumbf*ckery.
Me, on constant repeat, “Let the people of [this country] resolve their own issues, for a period of time.”
[insert any place on the planet]
I agree…who knows better than the people of the country?
Exactly.
I think less intervention from the west would be better for Libya. Now I wouldn’t say Libyans know the best for their country, but I would recommend more guidance and education would be better than only war related intervention.
Thanx for the visit and welcome…..I will agree….the US needs to re-think its endless interventionism….there is abetter way and you mentioned some of the issues….chuq
You are welcome. As a person who was born and lived in Benghazi, I can see the exact point where everything went down the hill. I hope the U.S would design a better plan next time for what should a country do after an intervention so we don’t see another Libya.
This is wonderful….I hope you visit often for I truly desire someone with first hand knowledge of the situation…I am following your blog and I hope you will find IST worthy of a follow also….chuq
Of course my friend. I love your blog already and I will try and keep mine updated 🙂
I will visit as often as I can…..good luck with the blog….chuq
Please if I post something about Libya that is not accurate let me know and I will fix the problem….chuq
TY for the follow