We may all applaud Gaddafi’s downfall, but it remains the case that Britain’s intervention in Libya was wrong
Simon Jenkins,
The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2011
‘If Cameron wants to take credit for the removal of Gaddafi then he cannot avoid responsibility for the aftermath.’ Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
The downfall of a dictator is always welcome. Especially welcome is the
downfall of Gaddafi of Libya. He was not the worst of his genre, but for 42 years was the beneficiary of the crassest western intervention, veering between ineffective sanctions and ostracism and
Tony Blair’s cringing, oil-drenched “friendship”. More welcome still would have been his downfall clearly at the hands of his own people, not courtesy of western armies.
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