Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's designation of the 2011 intervention in Libya as a success does not seem to reflect the paucity of contingency planning that appears to have informed the decision, reports the Daily Beast. However, Jason Pack comments:
“It is not our failing because the Libyans started the uprisings. The Libyans formed the Transitional National Congress. They then called for international support in the form of a no-fly zone. The Arab League for the first time in its history called for a non-Arab state to intervene,” said Jason Pack, a researcher of Middle Eastern and world history who runs a website dedicated to analyzing Libya. “It would have been catastrophic for U.S. national standing to not intervene.”Read the whole article here.