Anscheinend soll es beim 2011er Krieg der NATO gegen Libyen um den Schutz der Menschenrechte gegangen sein. Aus den kürzlich veröffentlichten Mails der damaligen US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton geht jedoch hervor, dass dies sehr unwahrscheinlich ist (siehe IMI-Analyse 2016/10). Auch in der Foreign Policy (via Bpb-Newsletter) wird aus dem Verlauf der Ereignisse geschlossen, dass es von Anfang an um den Sturz des libyschen Machthaber Gaddafi gegangen war: „The Obama administration said it was just trying to protect civilians. […] In truth, the Libyan intervention was about regime change from the very start. The threat posed by the Libyan regime’s military and paramilitary forces to civilian-populated areas was diminished by NATO airstrikes and rebel ground movements within the first 10 days. Afterward, NATO began providing direct close-air support for advancing rebel forces by attacking government troops that were actually in retreat and had abandoned their vehicles.” (jw)
