Western powers invoked the âresponsibility to protectâ (R2P) to bomb Libya.
The African Union asked NATO not to intervene, but was ignored. Gaddafi was captured and murdered, and today once-prosperous Libya is a political-economic disaster.
Murray Dobbin investigates the context of Gaddafi's existence as head-of-state in Libya, why the U.S. engaged in the pretense of supporting a democratic uprising in order to remove him, and the "humanitarian" echo chamber that substitutes for thinking.
November 27, 2013 Who Will Protect Libyans Now? Libyaâs Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians by MURRAY DOBBIN