(MPN) Today’s Libya is virtually unrecognizable from the Libya of years past. Following the violent ouster of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, things have taken a turn for the worse as the north African nation declines further into failure.
In this analysis we examine Libya’s recent history looking through the eyes of the Guardian, the flagship of liberal western outlets, and its reporting. As with most other western media, the Guardian was an enthusiastic supporter of the NATO intervention that overthrew Gaddafi and threw the country into the disaster that we are about to describe. Faithful to western interests then, the Guardian remains faithful afterwards as well.
The recent bombing of select ISIL positions in the former nation once known as Libya may be a precursor to a much larger operation. France’s Le Figaro reported in December that France is considering a second intervention in Libya, with a six-month military operation possibly to be launched against ‘Daesh’ in Libya before the spring. […]
