Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte

By Maximilian Forte

NATO’s conflict in Libya used to be proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing within the identify of “saving lives.” makes an attempt at international relations have been stifled. Peace talks have been subverted. Libya was once barred from representing itself on the UN, the place shadowy NGOs and “human rights” teams held complete sway in propagating exaggerations, outright falsehoods, and racial worry mongering that served to sanction atrocities and ethnic detoxing within the identify of democracy. the frenzy to warfare used to be a ways quicker than Bush’s invasion of Iraq.

Max specialty has scrutinized the documentary heritage from prior to, in the course of, and after the struggle. He argues that the warfare on Libya used to be now not approximately human rights, nor completely approximately oil, yet a couple of greater strategy of militarizing U.S. family with Africa. the improvement of the Pentagon’s Africa Command, or AFRICOM, used to be in fierce pageant with Pan-Africanist tasks corresponding to these spearheaded via Muammar Gaddafi.

Far from the good fortune NATO boasts approximately or the “high watermark” proclaimed via proponents of the “Responsibility to Protect,” this struggle has left the as soon as wealthy, self reliant and defiant Libya in smash, dependency and lengthy civil strife.

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