A completely
condemnatory report from
the UK parliament yesterday, concerning the total failure of the
Western intervention in Libya, came simultaneously with blog's revelation, based on Clinton emails published by WikiLeaks.
From
Guardian
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David Cameron’s intervention in
Libya was carried out with no proper intelligence analysis,
drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its
moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country following the
fall of Muammar Gaddafi, according to a scathing report by the
foreign affairs select committee. The failures led to the country
becoming a failed a state on the verge of all-out civil war, the
report adds. The report, the product of a parliamentary equivalent
of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, closely echoes the
criticisms widely made of Tony Blair’s intervention in Iraq, and
may yet come to be as damaging to Cameron’s foreign policy
legacy. It concurs with Barack Obama’s assessment that the
intervention was “a shitshow”, and repeats the US president’s
claim that France and Britain lost interest in Libya after Gaddafi
was overthrown.
[...]
Libya is currently mired in
political and economic chaos with competing factions fighting for
control of the key oil terminals and no nationwide support for the
UN-recognised government based in Tripoli. Tens of thousands of
refugees are entering the country with impunity from the rest of
Africa and sailing to Europe on perilous journeys.
Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who
chairs the select committee, said the original aim of the military
intervention to protect Benghazi was achieved within 24 hours.
“There is a debate about whether that intervention was
necessary and on what basis it was taken, but having been
achieved, the whole business then elided into regime change and
then we had no proper appreciation of what was going to happen in
the event of regime change, no proper understanding of Libya, and
no proper plan for the consequences,” he said.
[...]
The result of the French, British
and US intervention, the report finds, “was political
and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare,
humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights
violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region
and the growth of Isil [Islamic State] in north Africa”.
[...]
The report finds: “If the
primary object of the coalition intervention was the urgent need
to protect civilians in Benghazi, then this objective was achieved
in March 2011 in less than 24 hours. This meant that a
limited intervention to protect civilians drifted into an
opportunist policy of regime change by military means.”
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The report
not only confirms the complete failure of the Western intervention in
Libya, but also shows clearly that especially France and UK were not
interested in securing the stability in the country after the fall of
Qaddafi regime. This is another proof that the Western powers were
only interested to grab pieces of Libya's resources for their
companies, as the specific Clinton emails through WikiLeaks,
presented by the blog, clearly show.
Although
it's of less importance to examine the timing of this new fiercely
attack on Cameron and his devastating foreign policy, we could guess
that it's related to his significant role on the pro-Brexit vote,
during the British referendum.
The
suspicion will be proved irrelevant only if the French parliament
proceed in a similar report against Nicolas Sarkozy. After all, he
was the one who started the Western neo-colonial race over the Libyan
corpse, in an effort to secure the monopoly of the Libyan resources
for the French corporate giants, as the timeline of the Clinton
emails reveals.
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