Fighters from Misrata fire weapons at Islamic State militants near Sirte, March 15, 2015. Militants loyal to Islamic State, the group which has seized much of Iraq and Syria, have established a larger presence in central Libya in recent weeks. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
John Lloyd, Reuters: Better the dictator you condemn than the insurgents you can’t control
President Obama, already musing on failures during his second term, has said he regrets that the U.S. joined a coalition to intervene in Libya in 2011, ousting President Muammar Gaddafi, without an adequate plan for the post-Gaddafi society. “I think we [and] our European partners underestimated the need to come in full force if you’re going to do this.”
It’s curious that Obama and his allies had not ordered a plan for the new Libya: They had the example of the Iraq invasion in 2003. The war was won quickly but the post-war haunts us still, in part because the war effort was not paralleled with a vigorous peace effort.
WNU Editor: Yup .... better the "devil you know, than the one that you do not". The U.S. has definitely not been successful for a long time in winning the peace .... and a rethink and debate is definitely needed here, starting with laying out what should be the reasons that we go to war in the first place.
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WNU Editor,
Not gonna happen. The R2P crowd and neocon's are still in charge of US Foreign Policy,
And the "lesson" has been there in US Foreign Policy since well before Iraq.
He's just trying to polish his legacy,
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