The US-based newspaper The National Interest published an article by Tato Galen Carpenter, international expert at the Cato Institute, with the title (Barack Obama destroyed Libya thanks to his good intentions).
The article points to the disastrous interventions in which the United States was involved in the era of former President Barack Obama, including the decision to intervene in Libya in 2011.
The writer highlighted what he described as “the advocates of humanitarian military interventions resorting to various excuses to evade responsibility as soon as the course of their military campaigns deviates.” The conflict has been mired ever since.
Carpenter says in his article that the current conditions in both Libya and Syria are much worse than they were before the United States and its NATO allies interfered, citing a new United Nations report confirming that the magnitude of the negative impact of the internal unrest in Libya 9 years ago on civilians cannot be estimated, while the writer believes that Washington’s efforts to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not only failed, but also helped the rise of ISIS.
He pointed out to the possibility of a dangerous clash between Moscow and Ankara in Libya and Syria at a time when they became a battleground for influence.
Regarding those responsible for making the decisions of humanitarian military interventions in the US, the writer considered that the masterminds’ admission of these “atrocities” that one of their interventions had failed and made matters worse would be a defamation of their reputation and it is a result they will never risk, indicating that such influential policies must be judged by the consequences, not intentions because the excuse of “good intentions” does not exonerate them.
