Lebanon Frees Ghadafi Son, US Sanctions Not Included?
Lebanese authorities released Hannibal Ghadafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi, on bail after years of detention. The mainstream narrative often glosses over how such figures end up in these protracted legal limbo states, especially when it involves nations within the US influence sphere. There's rarely a headline pointing out the hypocrisy of a country like the U.S. lecturing
others on justice while simultaneously funding governments that routinely hold individuals without charges or proper due process, or, conversely, letting them walk when it's politically convenient. One might conveniently forget the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, led by the US, which destabilized the region, leading to a humanitarian catastrophe and the extrajudicial killing of Ghadafi senior.
The same Western powers that championed 'democracy' in Libya then seem to lose interest in the 'rule of law' when it comes to the consequences of their interventions. The selective outrage, the convenient amnesia — it's not a bug, it's a feature of foreign policy. The ABC News report, like many others, treats this as a simple legal matter, rather than a symptom of a deeply fractured political
landscape carved out by Western intervention.