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Nikki Haley says Nicaragua is run by a dictator and the US needs to intervene on humanitarian grounds to save ordinary people who are suffering under its murderous regime. But the liberal interventionists said the same thing about Libya and now look at mess the country has been left in? I don't know how Nikki Haley can get up on the world stage and lie so blatantly. Perhaps these people really do believe that if you open everything up to US style free market capitalism then everything is fine, even if the majority of people are left in squalor while rich westerners get to own all the resources. Perhaps they actually believe in the protestant work ethic and believe that ordinary Nicaraguans and Libyans should work their butts off and become rich too, and if they fail, then that's
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Nikki Haley says Nicaragua is run by a dictator and the US needs to intervene on humanitarian grounds to save ordinary people who are suffering under its murderous regime. But the liberal interventionists said the same thing about Libya and now look at mess the country has been left in? Nikki Haley says Nicaragua is run by a dictator and the US needs to intervene on humanitarian grounds to save ordinary people who are suffering under its murderous regime. But the liberal interventionists said the same thing about Libya and now look at mess the country has been left in? I don't know how Nikki Haley can get up on the world stage and lie so blatantly. Perhaps these people really do believe that if you open everything up to US style free market capitalism then everything is fine, even if the majority of people are left in squalor while rich westerners get to own all the resources. Perhaps they actually believe in the protestant work ethic and believe that ordinary Nicaraguans and Libyans should work their butts off and become rich too, and if they fail, then that's
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I don't know how Nikki Haley can get up on the world stage and lie so blatantly. Perhaps these people really do believe that if you open everything up to US style free market capitalism then everything is fine, even if the majority of people are left in squalor while rich westerners get to own all the resources. Perhaps they actually believe in the protestant work ethic and believe that ordinary Nicaraguans and Libyans should work their butts off and become rich too, and if they fail, then that's their own hard luck, because they didn't work hard enough, or were smart enough? Hey, why not vote in a leftist government to help the poor have a better chance of making it. Oh no, that would be a dictatorship because that's big government. That has to be smashed for the sake of 'democracy and freedom', you see. KV.
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Neil Clark - Libya in chaos seven years after NATO's 'liberation', but who cares?
As I argued in a previous op-ed, the Western assault on Libya was an even worse crime than the invasion of Iraq because it came later. There was really no excuse for anyone, seeing how the 'regime change' operation of 2003 had turned out, supporting a similar venture in North Africa.
Yet, those responsible for what happened have faced no comeback. The UK Prime Minister at the time, David Cameron, is blamed for Brexit (by Remainers), but not for what he did to Libya and the claims he made to justify the military action. This is despite a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee reportconcluding, five years later, that "the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence."
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President in 2011, faces a trial (or trials) in relation to three different investigations, including accepting money from Gaddafi to help his election campaign, but he has not yet been prosecuted for his role in the war.
Bernard-Henri Levy, the philosopher considered by some to be the intellectual godfather of the Western intervention - and who boasted "we are the first to say that Qaddafi is no longer the legal representative," is performing a one-man anti-Brexit play, as the country he helped 'liberate' burns.
Stateside and in 'liberal' circles across the West, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lionised for not being Donald Trump, but what the duo did to Libya is far worse than anything Trump has done up to now.
Libya has rival governments but even they don't control the majority of the country. There is no 'rule of law', only the rule of the gun. Libya's regression from the country with the highest Human Development Index figure in the whole of Africa just ten years ago, to a fragmented and very dangerous failed state, is hard to take in. Last year, the UN Agency IOM reported that slave markets had returned to the country. RT.
Neil Clark - Libya in chaos seven years after NATO's 'liberation', but who cares?