We massively screwed up in Libya, now we need to help fix it

Canada should volunteer to take a leading role in the necessary operation to fix what NATO broke.

Demonstrators protest the ongoing use of weapons by rebel militias in Tripoli, Libya, on Dec. 7, 2011. The lawlessness has not let up five years later, as militias battle for control of the country.UN photograph by Iason Foounten

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

June 29, 2016

OTTAWA—Although it is largely eclipsed by mainstream media coverage of Britain’s startling Brexit referendum results, Donald Trump’s inexplicable Republican Party presidential candidacy, and allegations of Russia itching to start World War Three, news is still coming out of war-torn Libya. Th...

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