Gene Healy: Three Years After US Intervention, Libya’s an Even Bigger Disaster

Libya suffered through an eventful St.
Patrick’s Day on Monday: car bomb
attacks in Benghazi killed at least eight people,
and the U.S. Navy SEALs scored “one for the Morning Glory”
by capturing the runaway oil tanker bearing that name in
order to return it to the Libyan government, such as it is. Three
years ago today, President Obama announced that America
would “not stand idly.” Gene Healy suggests that looking back, the
intervention appears to have been a moral vanity project carried
out by careless people who couldn’t be bothered to worry about
unintended consequences.

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