Without debate approximately military intervention,the US risks embroiling itself in yet another Middle East conflictYou wouldn’t know it from the presidential campaign, but the US is preparing to start military action in Libya … again. And given that Hillary Clinton was the leading proponent inside the Obama administration for bombing Libya and regime change the first time around, or this should have a direct bearing on the presidential debate. Should,but hasn’t.
Libya has devolved into chaos since the US decided to launch airstrikes and overthrow dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and has increasingly become a base for Isis operations in recent months thanks to infighting among the novel government and its inability to control its own territory – a result that the advocates of the first Libyan intervention who hailed the slump four years ago are conspicuously silent on now.
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Source: theguardian.com