re: #76 Desmond

The destabilization I’m referring to was the fall of central authority and the proliferation of weapons and militias throughout north Africa. This would not have happened if Gaddafi had stayed in power.

You know how I can tell you have no real idea what you’re talking about? Rebel groups controlled the entire eastern third of the country before there was any NATO or UN intervention. The rebels at that time were heavily comprised of defecting Libyan Army personnel, including mutinies by high ranking generals, entire divisions and officers from the Libyan Air Force Academy. They’d liberated weapons and supplies from literally dozens of government armories. Government forces were fighting back, and in some cases plausibly threatening to retake the rebel held coastal city of Misrata, but there was no reason whatsoever to think the genie was going back in the bottle. Every indication was that the civil war would last, possibly going back and forth for years, with an ever expanding death toll.