Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite
Libya shows how the West's wars are empowering its enemies and thus fueling endless conflict.
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Libya shows how the West's wars are empowering its enemies and thus fueling endless conflict.
It’s not often that the unelected leader of a country which publicly flogs dissidents and beheads people for sorcery wins such glowing praise from American officials and the Western press. King Abdullah's regime engaged in wanton human rights abuses, instrumentalized religious chauvinism, and played a hugely counterrevolutionary role in regional politics.
Al Qaeda claims to have come up with the perfect recipe for a deadly bomb, it's just too embarrassed to tell its devoted followers to place it inside their rectal cavity.
AQAP never killed any of its foreign captives. At least until a Dec. 6 twilight raid by U.S. commandos.
Victims of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia are being compensated with large amounts of cash — but it's not officially U.S. money.
It has been more than two years since The New York Times revealed that "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties" of his drone strikes which "in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants. Yet U.S. media outlets continue to use the term.
The people who denounce the violence of Islam live in countries whose governments unleash more violence than anyone else by far.
“Have you seen the latest airstrike videos from operations against #ISIL in #Iraq?” the U.S. Central Command tweeted this morning.
U.S. and U.K. spies stole encryption keys from the leading SIM card maker, exposing communications on millions of mobile phones.
It may seem detached and convenient, but shooting missiles into countries is a big deal, even if there aren't thousands of American troops on the ground.
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