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Mar 19, 2014 03:00 am | Raphael Cohen, Gabriel Scheinmann
Three
years after the start of the Western military operation against Muammar
Gaddafi’s regime, “Libya” continues to be upheld as a war done right.
It was quick, cheap, successful, and executed primarily by our allies.
In the immediate aftermath, it was “hailed as a model intervention”
by then U.S. envoy to NATO Ivo Daalder and Supreme Allied Commander
Admiral James Stravidis. Even after the terrorist attack in Benghazi,
President Obama proudly asserted
that “we were able to—without putting troops on the ground, at the cost
of less than what we spent in 2 weeks in Iraq—liberate a country that
had been under the yoke of dictatorship for 40 years, got rid of a
despot who had killed Americans.” Despite the president’s
characterization, Libya today remains shrouded in misconceptions.1. Libya was a European operation
read morehttp://nationalinterest.org/commentary/five-ways-youre-wrong-about-libya-10071
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