{"id":35045,"date":"2021-05-07T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=35045"},"modified":"2021-05-20T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T03:54:25","slug":"libya-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/libya-arab-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Arab Spring Forces Changes & U.S. Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What was Libya’s role in the Arab Spring<\/a> movement? How was the U.S. involved in what was going on in Libya?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Libya, the Arab Spring movement became violent when Muammer Gaddafi ordered forces to fight against civilians. The U.S. and others interfered and helped end Gaddafi’s reign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Libya, the Arab Spring movement, and U.S. involvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Strike Against Libya<\/strong> in the Arab Spring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the protests and unrest spread throughout the Middle East, regimes began to take more repressive, violent approaches toward them. <\/strong>In Libya, leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered his security forces to launch brutal actions against civilian protesters. This solidified Libya as having one of the most intense responses to the Arab Spring movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaddafi had long been an international pariah, infamous for violent repression domestically and state sponsorship of terrorism abroad. In a short matter of weeks in early 2011, much of Libya had descended into open civil war, with pro- and anti-government forces battling for control of the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaddafi launched a campaign of unrestrained terror against his own civilian population, as anti-government forces took control in the city of Benghazi. Pro-Gaddafi forces began to converge on the city in March 2011, with Gadaffi promising to slaughter the inhabitants once they arrived. It was a humanitarian disaster in the making\u2014and the international community began to press the Obama administration to intervene militarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Costs of Military Intervention<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Despite his clear sympathies with the forces resisting Gadaffi and his horror at the grisly fate that was surely awaiting Benghazi, Obama had strong reservations about committing U.S. troops.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. was already <\/em>embroiled in two wars that had been going on for nearly a decade. Throwing the country into a third conflict was politically risky, would endanger American lives, and potentially put the U.S. on the hook for more military interventions<\/a> around the world. After all, if the U.S. committed troops to stop a massacre in Libya, how could it decline to do so anywhere else in the world? Obama knew he could not sign off on an open-ended commitment by the United States to protect people around the world from their own governments. Moreover, war was a messy and ugly solution to any problem. Military conflicts, he\u2019d learned, did not solve problems\u2014they only created new ones, usually with unforeseeable consequences. This was how he saw Libya and the Arab Spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, international pressure continued to grow for military action. Top voices in the administration were split on the question. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice favored intervention, while Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen, Vice President Joe Biden, and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daly were opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was one of the most difficult decisions<\/a> of Obama\u2019s presidency. He knew the risks of intervention\u2014but also knew that tens of thousands of people could be slaughtered if he did nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building the International Coalition<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The president made the decision that the United States would intervene to prevent Gaddafi\u2019s destruction of Benghazi. But, in a break from the unilateral militarism of the Bush administration, Obama sought to build an international coalition to topple the Libyan dictator. In working with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sark\u00f6zy (both of whom had already publicly voiced support for military action in Libya) as well as representatives from the Arab League, Obama crafted a strategy to defeat Gaddafi, rescue Benghazi, and keep direct American involvement at a minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. would destroy the Libyan air defenses, enabling British and French fighter jets to strike at Gaddafi\u2019s ground forces, while the Arab League would provide logistical support. The British and French would also bear the cost of rebuilding after the end of hostilities. This plan of action promised to limit U.S. involvement in direct conflict and insulate the administration against political attacks that it was embroiling the country in yet another foreign conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 17, 2011 the UN Security Council approved the use of military force to protect Libyan civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Success<\/strong> in Libya Arab Spring<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The mission proved to be a success. By the end of March, Gaddafi\u2019s forces were largely defeated. Obama\u2019s commitment to internationalism had paid off: There were no American casualties, the intervention had come at a minimal financial cost to the U.S., and tens of thousands of Libyan civilians had been saved from certain death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the clear success of the mission, however, Obama was astonished to find congressional Republicans still hurling partisan attacks at his administration\u2019s handling of Libya. They argued that Obama had done too much; that he had done too little; that he had been too hasty; that he\u2019d waited too long; and that he hadn\u2019t sought congressional approval under the War Powers Act (a legal procedure they’d happily ignored during the Bush years). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hypocritical and bad-faith attacks were another confirmation to the president that politics no longer stopped at the water\u2019s edge\u2014<\/strong>everything<\/em><\/strong> was fair game in partisan warfare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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