Learning from Libya
In a recent interview, US President Barack Obama seems to have decided that military intervention in Libya in 2011 was a mistake. The true lesson from the conflict, however, is the need for genuine multilateral action if efforts to protect people from genocide and other crimes against humanity are to be effective.
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MELBOURNE – There are important lessons to be learned from what went wrong with the NATO-led military intervention in Libya in 2011. US President Barack Obama was right about that in his recent wonderfully frank interview in The Atlantic. But if we are not to compound the world’s misery, we have to take away the right lessons from that intervention.