What has the West wrought in Libya?In the fullness of the Arab Spring, helping rebels oust Muammar Gaddafi in Libya seemed to Western leaders as a good idea. He was a mercurial thorn in the side to the West and an autocrat in his own country.
France and Britain led the air campaign to destroy Gaddafi's military capability. The United States assisted. President Obama justified it on humanitarian grounds, to keep Gaddafi from slaughtering the rebels and civilians where they were located.
Now Libya is a dangerous wreck, and no Western countries want to take responsibility for restoring its civil order.
The migrant shipwreck that may have left as many as 700 dead in an attempt to flee Libya is triggering reflections about European immigration policies. There are difficult questions, about collective border security and the willingness to accept refugees from Northern Africa, given the large numbers and the growing anti-immigration sentiment in much of Europe.
But that shouldn't be the end of the introspection. Whether Libya is better off today than if the West had allowed the incipient civil war to play itself out is unclear. There's not much room for it to be worse off. And it is impossible to contend that Libya is clearly better off.
The tragic shipwreck should also trigger circumspection about interfering in the affairs of other countries when there is not a direct security threat to your own.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/robertrobb/2015/04/20/what-has-west-wrought-in-libya/26081571/ You can't support on one side the freedom of people because they speak russian to self determine and oppose it on the other side, it would lead to the collapse. second this type of what ever you try to achieve here is futile. remember keep your yard and you are clean, don't become arrogant.
OK... let me make a quick comparison of pre-invasion era Libya and NATO-controlled Libya:
Libya before invasion:
1. Secular government
2. One of the most prosperous nations in Africa. Attracting migrants from all over Africa in their millions.
3. Home o some of the mega engineering products, such as the Great Man-Made River.
4 Citizens enjoy one of the highest per capita incomes in Africa
5. Probably the best healthcare facilities in the entire African continent.
Libya under NATO
1. ISIS is active, and controls most of the cities.
2. Jobs and livelihoods are vanishing. Thousands of Libyan citizens are fleeing the country, mainly to Europe.
3. Large scale destruction to infrastructure, as a result of civil war.
4. One of the most war ravaged countries in the world.
5. Healthcare facilities almost non-existent.
again, same can be said on anything by those that can't stand the high ground, is vodka making you roll along the slope of the hills?
Taxpayer's money in work :/. To be honest I wouldn't oppose some plundering raids to such countries if we all can get a fair share in exchange for our crowdfunding efforts (aka taxes) from the loot, but in this case there are no loot, no plundering just destruction and hefty bills. I don't see the point why we went there.
right now, I don't care, it's broken because those people are too weak to do what real Russians did, aka not surrender, and stand firm, even against a man who call himself king of Africa. learn. and don't stand in the fucking path. from your nation no history can be learn worth being repeated but submission.
Taxpayer's money in work :/. To be honest I wouldn't oppose some plundering raids to such countries if we all can get a fair share in exchange for our crowdfunding efforts (aka taxes) from the loot, but in this case there are no loot, no plundering just destruction and hefty bills. I don't see the point why we went there.
That's precisely the point, we're the ones who foot the bill for their ventures, politicians and government contractors benefits from all the gains made in these wars and they get the money from the tax payer so they can afford it, from their point of view, it's a win win, even if it is a balancing at where they send a bit our way through either minor tax cuts or more deficit spending, mostly it's just through deficit spending.
however how tragic it may be, once the core is a threat, the others mother fuckers must understand that rules evolves, and such once the forces focus at home, you have to feed for yourselves, like they do. however if you believe to be able to exploit a blind spot, you are delusional.
muammar gaddafi was a great man who modernised libya and even managed to civilise the black savages somewhat which the arabs couldnt after 1000 years. you could say this refugee invasion europe is currently suffering is its penalty for murdering him.
rapists must die. end. they are infidels.
Well, certainly this mess is not being viewed as a failure since Hillary Clinton - another of those certifiable nutbags that unfortunately are never taken out of circulation in the interests of public safety - is supposed to be the next president of the United States.
Psychopathic junk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Ythe only failure is the rescue of the boys. the rest isn't my problem on this topic.