Destroying Libya and World Order

It took three decades for the United States
government-spanning and working assiduously over
five different presidential administrations (Reagan,
Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)-to terminate the
1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil
fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book
tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and
what was both wrong and illegal with that from the
perspective of an international law professor and
lawyer who tried for over three decades to stop it.

Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and
critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from
when the Reagan administration came to power in
January of 1981 up to the 2011 NA TO war on Libya that
ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and
beyond.

He sets the record straight on the series of military
conflicts and crises between the United States and
Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan
administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation
of international terrorism put forward over his eight
years in office.

Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie
bombing cases against the United States and the
United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for
Colonel
Qaddafi acting upon his advice-and the unjust
resolution of those disputes.

Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle
analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to
protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor,
“humanitarian intervention”. He addresses how R2P
served as the basis for the NATO assault on Libya in
2011, overriding the UN Charter commitment to
state sovereignty and prevention of aggression. The
purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000
Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law
and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out
the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb
and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali-with
the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble
for the natural resources of Africa.

This book is not only a classic case study of the
conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to
international law, but a damning indictment of the
newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for
Western intervention into third world countries.