Alwaght – Members of British Parliament slam the former Prime Minister’s decision to militarily intervene in Libya leaving it a failed state.
The foreign affairs select committee described the military attack of the African Country as “carried out with no proper intelligence analysis, drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country following the fall of dead Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi."
The report which was reviewed by the British Independent newspaper added “the failures led to the country becoming a failed a state on the verge of all-out civil war."
The investigation by the committee was based on criticisms of a decision by David Cameroon, former English prime minister to join the US in an attack against Libyan dictator. Those criticisms were largely similar to the ones cited against Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq and so the results are similar to the conclusion by the Iraq was investigation.
The report also builds on an assessment by the US President that called intervention “a shitshow” which led to the loss of French and British interests in Libya after the toppling of Gaddafi.
Libya is currently mired in political and economic chaos with competing factions fighting for control of the key oil terminals and no nationwide support for the UN-recognized government based in Tripoli. Tens of thousands of refugees are entering the country with impunity from the rest of Africa and sailing to Europe on perilous journeys.
Referring to the original objective set by the US and British forces before the initiation of attacks, Crispin Blunt, who chairs the select committee, said the original aim of the military intervention to protect Benghazi was achieved within 24 hours.
"There is a debate about whether that intervention was necessary and on what basis it was taken, but having been achieved, the whole business then elided into regime change and then we had no proper appreciation of what was going to happen in the event of regime change, no proper understanding of Libya, and no proper plan for the consequences,” he said.
The US led coalition attacked Libya in March 2011 supposedly to stop the killing of civilians after the violent crackdown of Gaddafi forces on civilian protestors.
The intervention however left hundreds of civilians dead and the country in chaos. Libya has been vulnerable to ISIS and al-Qaeda permeation since then.
