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It’s Not the USA that Made Libya the Disaster it is Today

Self-Defeating

Decades of rule by Gaddafi left Libyans with a collective case of PTSD, or something very much like it.

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When I entered Libya for the first time on April 8, 2011, driving in from Egypt, two opposed reactions fought in my brain. The exuberant greetings of the thuwar, or revolutionaries, manning the border and the Libyan liberation flags everywhere reminded me of nothing so much as my own country...

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