The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming - The Intercept

French President Nicholas Sarkozy, left, Libya's NTC leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, center, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, gesture during their visit to Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Cameron and Sarkozy gave Libya's new rulers strong support during a landmark visit to Tripoli on Thursday, vowing to release billions of dollars more in frozen assets and to push ahead with NATO strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's last strongholds. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming

This was supposed to be the supreme model of Humanitarian Intervention. One of its few benefits is it now provides a pretext for another new war.