After Years Of Crisis In Libya, What Will The West Do This Time Around?
Western powers are busy drumming up support for Libya’s new Government of National Accord (GNA).
The foreign ministers of Spain, Italy, the UK, France and Germany have already visited Tripoli and have met the new government to discuss the future.
These politicians have promised political support and pledged millions in aid, with the UK specifying its contribution be used for antiterrorism activities and to fight against the illegal migration that is surging from the shores of Libya.
In 2011, these same countries – the UK, France, Italy and the US – led the fight to overthrow the long-standing regime of Muammar Qaddafi, after which Libya plunged into years of chaos.
These western powers had no plan in place for Libya once Qaddafi was gone and the architecture of his regime destroyed.
The absence of such a framework has cost Libyans five years of bloodshed and made their country a haven for terror groups including ISIL.
So what is different this time and did these western powers learn anything from their previous mistakes?
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