Thoughts?

Thoughts?

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Date 16 May 2014 – present
(2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location Libya
Status
Ongoing

Islamic parties dominating the General National Congress (GNC) are defeated in the June 2014 elections.
GNC Islamic forces take control of Tripoli[50] and establish a rival government[51]
The government supported by the majority of the elected Council of Deputies bases itself in Tobruk[51]
The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries takes control of Benghazi.[52]
The Libyan National Army recaptures most of Benghazi, with the battle ongoing[53]
ISIL takes over most of Derna,[43] part of the Sabha countryside, Nofaliya,[54] Sirte,[55] and other cities in Libya
Operation Dignity and Libya Dawn factions agree to a ceasefire,[56] and to form a unity government.[1]
Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna expels ISIL from Derna in July 2015[57]
Peace agreement reached between the Tobruk-based government and Tripoli-based government in December 2015 leading to dissolution of General National Congress and formation of Government of National Accord[58][59]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's Libyan branch launches an offensive to capture control of the strategic oil terminals of Sidra and Ra's Lanuf in January 2016.[60]
Pro-government militias launch an offensive to capture areas in and around Sirte from ISIL in May 2016.[61][62] Abu Qurayn, Bin Jawad, Nofaliya, Harawa, Ghardabiya Air Base and Sirte seized by the militias in the offensive.[63][63][64][65][66][67][68]
Forces loyal to Khalifa al-Ghawil attempt a coup d'état against Fayez al-Sarraj and the Presidential Council.[69]

Bravo France

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Libyan people are at last free from oppression, now they can finally bomb marketplaces and rape women without that bigot Gaddafi arresting them

>8 different factions

No thoughts?

Thanks NATO

Long live democracy, freedom and transgender rights

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Seriously, what is there to be said.
NATO fucked up the country so they can replace unruly dictator with their puppet.
And now when goatfuckers are swimming across the sea, one half of hippocrites are crying crocodile tears so they can import cheap labour and other half is going full dindu nuffin.

bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15393497

>Gaddafi killed: A new kind of US foreign policy success

>Obama and the US have embraced the transitional Libyan authorities
>"Wow", said Hilary Clinton as she was handed a Blackberry with the news out of Libya.
>Gaddafi's death will be a relief to President Obama and his administration. That's on the fairly simple grounds that he backed NATO action, called for him to go, and now he's gone.
>In an awkward phrase, coined by an anonymous official, the policy was "to lead from behind."
>Most Americans see Gaddafi as a villain. They too will be glad he has gone.
>Despite a brief rehabilitation when he chose to be on America's side during President George W Bush's war on terror, most will associate him with the Lockerbie bomb: a crazy, slightly sinister man, almost a caricature of a mad Middle Eastern dictator.
>The road that led us to this day tells us a lot about Barack Obama's foreign policy as a whole, and its sometimes uncomfortable mix of idealism and realism.

To cajole or to lead?
But let's not go over the top. Even though they didn't shout about it from the rooftops, American forces were deeply involved.
The total cost to the US so far stands at just over $1bn. There have been 7,725 US sorties including 145 predator drone strikes. Without American involvement behind the scenes it probably couldn't have been done.
The perception of the American position wasn't all deliberate. There really was a good deal of muddle.
As so often Obama took a while to decide what to do. Crucial allies like the UK and France were kept in the dark as some argued for intervention to prevent a humanitarian crisis, while others said that America could not afford, in any sense, another military adventure in the Arab world.
In the end it was fear of being judged a moral failure that drove the decision.
The president was told that thousands could die in a massacre in Benghazi and he wasn't going to be held responsible for that.
But if President Obama's policy has been a success on its own terms, it leaves others in the US deeply worried. They don't think their country should encourage, cajole, help and guide. They think it should lead - that it should be seen to lead in fact and in deed.
And if it doesn't it is not clever - it is defeatist, and will inevitably lead to a diminution of power. They may raise their voices, not today, but when the dust settles.
There are others still who think that backing the people in the Arab world, however quietly, is paving the way for jihadist regimes that will be hostile to American interests.
Making sure they are wrong is where the state department's focus is now. The coming weeks and months will not have the drama of the events that are unfolding. They may not even be reported in detail in much of the Western media.
But the US state department is deeply involved in how Libya develops, and that will be the true test of the success or failure of Barack Obama's policy.

Obama and Clinton fucked up. And the funny thing is that they got away with it.

True

But politicians usually get away with it

At least Clinton lost her election.

Obummer is going to be locked up pretty soon though

France and the UK pushed us into it.

Lol

>pushed the superpower into doing what it always wanted

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>But let's not go over the top. Even though they didn't shout about it from the rooftops, American forces were deeply involved.
>The total cost to the US so far stands at just over $1bn. There have been 7,725 US sorties including 145 predator drone strikes. Without American involvement behind the scenes it probably couldn't have been done.

Benghazi Libyanon, where are you?

It's been over a year since you claimed "things are getting better".

One of those "We told you" epizodes.

>defers in UNSC vote

Least you learned for Syria

>NATO ever caring about UN resolutions
Should I remind Yugoslavia and Iraq to you?

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You faggots supported it in the UN. Gadaffi was a massive faggot who attacked everyone around him and repressed the people North Korea-style.

My grandfather made listening devices for the gadaffi regime