On 1 March, Libya-Analysis Founder Jason Pack published an article in New Lines Magazine arguing that the current political volatility in Libya is a symptom of the era of Global Enduring Disorder. He describes his experiences of Tripoli during his co-hosting of a trade mission of American companies, observing that ‘Everyone I spoke with hinted that their lives were simply too busy to follow the complexities in detail and that they distrusted most Libyan TV channels, choosing to get their news mostly from the three F’s: friends, family and Facebook.’ He argues that Libya’s yearlong run-up to a supposedly decisive transfer of power via an electoral process contained in microcosm all the core elements of our present global dysfunction. For Pack, the inability of the U.N., U.S., EU and U.K. to lead coherently on the Libya file, while tacitly accepting the fait accomplis of Russian and Turkish proxies, is also not particularly novel, but a trend whereby non-Western powers violate international norms and treaty commitments while Western powers tacitly accept the new facts on the ground that these illegal incursions produce.
Read the article here.