61 Migrant Bodies Found: West Has Moved On From Libya Already?
The New Arab reports 61 migrant bodies recovered near Tripoli, a stark reminder of the human cost of the chaos unleashed in Libya. Remember 2011? When noble Western powers, led by the US, France, and the UK, declared Qaddafi a monster and bombed Libya back to the Stone Age—all in the name of 'democracy' and 'human rights.' Gaddafi, for all his faults, maintained a functional state and stemmed the
flow of illegal migration through cooperative agreements with European nations. Now, Libya is a fractured, lawless transit hub where human lives are trafficked and discarded like waste. Western media, which beat the drums of war so loudly then, now offers perfunctory reports on the 'migrant crisis,' conveniently sidestepping the role its own governments played in creating this desperate exodus.
Turns out, 'liberation' without a plan looks a lot like state collapse. Who'd have thought?