How the framework begins for a new occupation by USA-led NATO

Live and learn folks, live and learn.  IMO, before the end of this year, NATO will have skipped from Afghanistan to Libya. It matters very little whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House.  They all think alike and they will always do the nasty whenever and wherever they can.  

Mick Krever at Amanpour's blog:
.....West should have put boots   on the ground in Libya, says former prime minister.
Western countries exercised “bad judgement” in failing to put troops on the ground during the Libyan revolution, Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday.

“There was bad judgement on [the] part of the West for not putting too many troops on the ground,” Zeidan said through an interpreter.

Amanpour clarified whether he believed that, in retrospect, he wished that the West had “put boots on the ground, forces to maintain security.”

“Any means to have security will be accepted in Libya,” he said. If Libya wants stability, “we should have forces that are part of the United Nations, regional or Middle Eastern troops, or countries that have relations or connections in Libya – and if this takes place under the international community, under the United Nations, it will be accepted.”

Three years after Moammar Gadhafi was forced from office and killed, control of Libya is largely in the grip of militias.

Zeidan himself was forced from office by a parliamentary vote earlier this month and fled the country.

He insists that he is still the prime minister......