Obama’s right, Libya became a ‘shit show.’ We need an inquiry into our role

We claimed we would liberate the Libyan people from a despot; instead we delivered them into anarchy.

One of the only traces left in August 2011 of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at his former home in Tripoli was a bullet-pierced poster of him. Photograph courtesy of Scott Taylor

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 21, 2016

OTTAWA—Last week, a British parliamentary committee published a report that roundly condemned former prime minister David Cameron’s role in the 2011 international intervention in Libya. Rather than complying with the United Nations resolution authorizing NATO to protect Libyan civilians from re...

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