Seven years after Obama's 'worst mistake,' Libya killing is rampant
By Peter Bergen and Alyssa Sims
Updated 1:57 PM ET, Wed June 20, 2018
Seven years after Obama's 'worst mistake,' Libya killing is rampant
By Peter Bergen and Alyssa Sims
Updated 1:57 PM ET, Wed June 20, 2018
"Peter Bergen is a CNN national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is writing a book for Penguin Random House about the national security decision-making of the Trump administration. Alyssa Sims is a policy analyst with the International Security Program at New America. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own."
(CNN)Years after then President Barack Obama made what he has described as his worst mistake by not adequately planning for the fall of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, Libya remains in chaos. In the past seven years, four nations have conducted air strikes in Libya and hundreds of civilians have died in those strikes.
As the protests of the Arab Spring swept through Libya, Gadhafi mounted a war of attrition against his own people describing those who were protesting his rule as "rats."
The Obama administration helped steer a UN resolution to take military action to protect Libyan civilians, which resulted in a US-led NATO intervention in Libya. Gadhafi was eventually killed by rebels.
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CNN to their credit, post an opposing view to the anointed one.
