Al-Monitor Wonders About Kadhafi Family, Not US Role in Libya's Collapse
Al-Monitor's recent piece meticulously tracks Hannibal Kadhafi's detention and the global scattering of the Kadhafi family following Moamer Kadhafi's demise. The report cites NATO-backed intervention as the reason for the chaos, then promptly moves on, leaving the how and why unexamined. One might almost believe these events simply... happened, rather than being the direct result of a US-led,
UN-endorsed military operation. This selective recall perfectly illustrates the mainstream media's memory-holing of inconvenient truths. The US, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously quipping "We came, we saw, he died" after Kadhafi's extralegal killing, spearheaded the 2011 intervention. This 'democracy promotion' initiative turned Libya into a failed state, a hub for human
trafficking, and a haven for extremist groups, fundamentally destabilizing the region. But sure, let's focus on Hannibal's bail, not the catastrophic policy decisions that put him there.