President Obama’s announcement of a major new expansion of the ISIS war into Syria came along with talk of an increased US commitment nationwide, and he explicitly mentioned the need for “vigilance” in Northern Africa.
That suggests that the administration has its sights set squarely on the increasingly failed state of Libya, which grows more failed by the day, and where Gen. Khalifa Hifter, long funded by the CIA, is aiming to secure territory from various Islamist factions.
In last month’s comments, President Obama talked up intervention in Lbiya, saying that the lesson of the NATO-imposed regime change was that the US needed “a much more aggressive effort to rebuild societies that didn’t have any civic traditions.”
It may be that President Obama was not merely talking about future conflicts, but about having a re-do on Libya, with an attempt to get into the nation-building business in the oil-rich, but decidedly chaotic, Mediterranean state.
Failed state is a very vague term.I is often misused,abused and applied selectively like terrorism,democracy,extremism,radicalism,and so on.Is Libya in any different than many other countries experiencing issues of one type or another.Is different than central Africa,Congo,south Sudan,Ukraine,and so on.How about the US?!
Could it be that the side that is being supported ,bankrolled and controlled by Saudi Arabia ,United Arab Emirates,and Egypt is actually has not much support among Libyans.Hafter,Oligarchs,an ex-kaddify official thieves ,nothing uniting but greed and hunger for power just for the sake of power losing.Under pressure from those tyrannical governments Obama is being pushed to do something to rescue their Libyan stooges.Obama would repeating the same disastrous operation the US took in Somalia following the fall of Mohamed Siad Barre regime.
And the notion that the US is ever engaged in nation building is another fallacy.Billion of dollars spent that ended up in the hands of US multinational corporations such Halliburton.