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0 pointsgeezerjay9y ago0 comments

> It also ended up a lot better than non-intervention in Syria.

It ended marginally better because NATO's intervention decisively tipped the scales against Gaddafi's regime.

The Syrian civil war has been in a stalemate for years, and only recently has Assad's regime been making inroads due to Russia's decisive and no-holds-barred military intervention.

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varjag9y ago· 2 in thread

If by marginally we mean a difference of half million dead and three million seeking refuge, I beg to disagree.

And yes Syria is an intangible mess now, probably the same would have been in Lybia if it was left to own civil war for 5 more years.

geezerjayOP9y ago

> If by marginally we mean a difference of half million dead and three million seeking refuge, I beg to disagree.

Now, factor in the fact that Libya is now a failed state and the refugee crisis is largely caused by human traffickers using Libya as a staging area to send those countless lifeboats packed with countless unwitting victims, a great number of which end up dead in the Mediterranean.

varjag9y ago

The cause of the current refugee crisis is not Libya, this is really creative interpretation of the results of Syria non-intervention policy.

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