Did the West even know what they were doing in Libya?

You can even, and understandably so, label his thinking as over-simplistic, lopsided, or self-serving. In the series of articles he later  wrote on the trip, he did what he does best: He lectured and flaunted his ideological superiority. Turkey denies the French allegation, saying the interaction was friendly. Libya conflict: GNA regains full control of Tripoli from Gen Haftar How Africa has been frozen out of Libya peace efforts Turkey risks falling deeper into Libya conflict as it deploys troops Khalifa Haftar: The Libyan general with big ambitions Syria war: Who are Russia's shadowy Wagner mercenaries? After 10 days of protests, Alexander Lukashenko says he has given orders to end the unrest in Minsk. Solidarity with #Tarhuna,” he beamed.

on America’s fading primacy in world affairs, Stephen M. Walt, one of the world’s leading realist scholars, speaks of the monumental failures and calamitous miscalculations Washington’s foreign policy establishment sanctioned in recent years. On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey of "historic and criminal responsibility" in the Libyan conflict, "for a country which claims to be a Nato member".Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Tuesday that France had been "destructive" in the North African nation, and accused the country of trying "to increase Russia's presence in Libya". The Gabonese explains why in his tell-all — about NATO’s “misguided” and “counterproductive” intervention in Libya. And, far from the jargon-loving and ambiguity-mystifying spectacle of French intellectualism, BHL’s prose is exquisitely readable. Turkey allegedly targeted the Courbet three times with its weapons systems His voice, which he prefers to be lyrical, is resonant and sometimes affecting. For not bestowing him or her with the honors and hero welcome he or she expected.Of course, this is an exaggeration. In this, BHL’s Libyan ambush was largely a boycott of the foreign policy school — and country —  with which he is associated.

Petrole et developpement : le cas libyen.. [Yves Gazzo] 47 cadavers, including children, hands tightened in the back, have been recently excavated : they suffered martyrdom from pro #Haftar proxies. But the facts back him up. Both claims were later shattered, however.
France will not tolerate Turkey's military intervention in Libya, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, accusing Ankara of playing "a dangerous game". France, meanwhile, is also thought to back Gen Haftar, although leaders in Paris have repeatedly denied this. Not only did the Libyan official insist that the Tripoli government did not sanction BHL’s reportage trip, but he suggested the French philosopher’s move was unnecessary and ill-timed. "Le patrimoine est le pétrole de la France". The self-indulgent “victim” points accusatory fingers at the entire world for daring to question his or her motivations. The point is not that foreign intervention is inherently bad, or should always be out of the question.

“But let’s be careful. But it becomes problematic, murky, when seized upon by radical interventionists — and BHL is one, by most measures — who think military invasion is the ultimate solution, regardless of the disastrous “unintended consequences.”  As history has shown time and again, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”To talk about BHL and Libya — and by extension France’s presence in Africa — it helps a lot to start where BHL does not wish to start. These are some of the questions Ping raises. Had they considered the catastrophic ramifications that a failed Libya could have for  the entire Saharan corridor? But given the distractions of the Covid-19 pandemic and President Trump's own ambivalent attitude towards Nato, such tensions are likely to simmer on.

BHL should have known better than to return to a country where his advocacy journalism and , however noble and well-meaning, have mainly resulted in chaos and desolation. Trapped inside the bubble of his own outsized certainties about how to solve the world’s problems, however, BHL doggedly maintains, despite a mounting , that his role in Libya makes him a champion of enforced enlightenment and human progress. It can, at its best, help to start a much-needed conversation between rival factions or countries. Not now at least. Mostly, at least. For everything said about the French philosopher, especially by critics who have mocked and rightly called out his savior or messiah complex, BHL is, essentially, no He gets it all wrong in Libya, but I do not think he is a phony.
“It is one of the poverties of a time when nothing remotely related to greatness or even loftiness can be uttered without incurring the wrath or the modern Eumenides of bounded thinking,” Another piece on the same trip, written for WSJ, makes similar points, albeit in less philosophical language. "It doesn't make sense to keep our assets... with allies who do not respect the embargo," a French defence official reportedly said.This latest row with France is only the latest issue to raise questions about Turkey's position within the alliance. And the thing about audacity is that, unchecked and unmanaged, it is bound to morph into a vile spectacle of grandstanding and self-entitlement. Rather, it should be a painstaking, far-sighted exercise in deep, meaningful familiarization with the relevant history and socio-economic contexts.BHL’s universalist sentimentality can bring a smile to a sad, dejected face. As in 2011, BHL thinks he was saving Libya; that he was salvaging its hard-won democracy by denouncing tyrants like Erdogan and Putin who, we are told, are making a failed state out of the thriving Libyan-style democracy that the NATO intervention created. So are we,” he wrote. He dwelt on the genesis of his political education, going to great lengths to show how he was philosophically and intellectually molded in the philosophy of defiance and intellectual courage that marked France in the 1960s and 1970s.