{"id":3344,"date":"2019-06-02T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2020-05-30T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:16:52","slug":"europes-inaction-on-the-civil-war-in-libya-will-bring-crisis-to-our-shores-%c7%80-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/europes-inaction-on-the-civil-war-in-libya-will-bring-crisis-to-our-shores-%c7%80-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s inaction on the civil war in Libya will bring crisis to our shores \u01c0 View"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It isn\u2019t hard to see why Ghassan Salam\u00e9 accused the global community of lacking the \u2018moral motivation\u2019 to end the Libyan civil war. After all, his comments followed Emmanuel Macron\u2019s meeting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a warlord and dictator-in-the-making. In the days since, Haftar\u2019s forces have pushed on towards the centre of Tripoli<\/a>, while an Al Jazeera investigation has discovered cargo planes secretly dropping off payloads<\/a> at bases in his control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Haftar has told the French press<\/a> that political discussions cannot resume until he has \u2018finished with\u2019 the country\u2019s militias \u2018once and for all\u2019. Yet Macron insists he is being \u2018realistic\u2019 in his approach to the conflict that has torn Libya asunder. He sees the Middle East as an important stage for France to prove the intelligence of its foreign policy. But what think-tanks have called the \u2018reassurance\u2019 doctrine is merely the same backward approach the West has always taken in regard of the Arab world: support the strongman, the thinking goes, for he is the best hope of maintaining stability.<\/p>\n

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