Has President Obama Learned That His Policy In Libya May Also Create A Similar Disaster In Syria?

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Alexander Decina, Daily Beast: In Syria, What Obama Learned From Libya

Dumb judgments about who’s in charge helped speed Libya on the path toward failed-state status. The same thing could happen in Syria, but with much worse consequences.

Libya is a mess. The country’s two competing governments—the secular-leaning House of Representatives (HoR) and the Islamist-leaning General National Congress (GNC)—have been squabbling over power since June 2014. Both sides have relied on a loose alliance of militias for support, but, mostly, those are tails wagging the dogs. These parliaments lack legitimacy or real power, and it is the militias, which prop them up, that are actually controlling the country.

On Dec. 23, the UN Security Council voted unanimously to accept a transition process to implement a “Government of National Accord,” effectively inserting a third government into Libya’s chaos.

Good luck with that.

WNU Editor: Syria is already disaster .... it is hard to see that it can get worst .... but it can. Alexander Decina wrote this post for the Daily Beast before this story broke out .... Western Military Forces To Be Deployed To Libya To Seize Islamic State Oilfields. It looks like President Obama is open to the idea of sending U.S. forces into failed states, and Libya is going to have taste of this U.S. involvement. Is Syria next?