the Libyan regime was inhumane and something had to be done - but I have no idea how to pack “something” in a coherent package.
often the bombings for peace are inconsequential and inconsistent. in 2007 the French government was totally happy to sell Gaddafi a nuclear power plant, aircrafts and modern equipment for the military. a handful of years later France was the first in the line bombing all sorts of shit out of Gaddafi.
the Lybian regime in 2007 was not very different from the regime in 2011, the Arabian spring changed the playing field but does imo not justify the extreme U-turn in policies.
I don’t have a solution, but the interventionism of the Western bloc since Yugoslavia in the 1990s is not a good way, they feel less like enforcing human rights and more like political power games.
