Western Media Discovers 'Tragedy' After Destabilizing Libya
CBS News dutifully reports 42 migrants presumed dead off Libya, rescued seven after six days adrift. A tragic outcome, indeed. What’s consistently absent from these urgent dispatches is the historical context: the 2011 NATO intervention, spearheaded by the U.S. and allies, that plunged Libya into chaos. Colonel Gaddafi, for all his faults, maintained a unified state. His removal, justified by
'humanitarian intervention,' created a power vacuum that unleashed militias, thriving human trafficking networks, and turned Libya into a launchpad for desperate migration across the Mediterranean. (One might wonder if the concern for 'humanitarian' plight extends to the geopolitical decisions that create it.) So, while CBS News spotlights another grim statistic, the elephant in the room—a decade
of Western-backed instability and the subsequent migrant crisis—remains comfortably unmentioned. One could argue the crisis isn't 'presumed dead,' but a direct legacy of 'presumed liberation.' How many more bodies must wash ashore before the media traces the trajectory of cause and effect back to its conveniently forgotten origins?