Gaddafi

In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, fled Tripoli after the capital fell to rebel NTC forces. He was soon located by the rebels with NATO’s assistance, and pursued until he was captured. He was then beaten, sodomized with a bayonet, and shot several times. 

Gaddafi’s death wasn’t immediate, and a video later showed the man with a gunshot wound to his head, slowly dying in a pool of his own blood

The nature of Gaddafi’s death was concealed from the American public and NATO’s involvement was repeatedly denied until videos surfaced

The Obama Administration justified US involvement in toppling the Gaddafi regime as an effort to “protect Libyan civilians.”

“We had a unique ability to stop the violence.” Obama would say.

We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi…could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.”

Later, Hillary Clinton would coldly remember Gaddafi’s killing, “We came, we saw, he died.”

After Gaddafi’s removal, Libya quickly descended into anarchy, and the Administration’s dreams of a liberal democratic Libya would collapse in widespread violence and corruption. A year later, rebels belonging to Ansar al-Sharia attacked the US Embassy in Benghazi.

Killing the US Ambassador there along with three other Americans- an event riddled with lies and obfuscations typical of the Obama Administration.

The scapegoat for the attack- an obscure filmmaker- is currently in prison on “unrelated” charges.

Libya today is best described as a ‘fake country’ where disparate criminal and insurgent organizations operate with impunity.

Drugs, weapons, and human chattel, including child sex slaves, are bought and sold in city markets all over the country.

Most Americans have probably forgotten their nation’s role in this humanitarian disaster, and the brutal killing of Gaddafi. 

Power vacuums suck, no pun intended. And these regime change wars... skirmishes... "involvements" almost always have dire consequences. And we're essentially involved in several, at any given time, to varying degrees. Guys like Saddam Hussein and Gadaffi get the headlines but there are so many more than that.

Wow! I did not realize the filmmaker was still in prison! 

The 2010 UN Human Development Index – which is a composite measure of health, education and income – ranked Libya 53rd in the world, and first in Africa.

Libya is now ranked 105th.