The Libyan constitution unveiling
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The Libyan constitution unveiling is an episode John Kiriakou offers as the clearest picture he has of how the United States handles a country after the government falls.

"When the US and NATO overthrew Muammar Gaddafi during the Obama administration, I happened to be invited to the unveiling of the new Libyan Constitution. It was unveiled at a lobbying firm here in Washington DC."

Who wrote it

"So a group of wealthy Libyan exiles paid this lobbying firm and said: write us a new constitution."

Kiriakou's assessment of the text is not sarcastic: "this constitution was better than ours. It called for equal rights for everybody, women, gays, LGBT, whatever. Everybody was equal. They're going to share the oil money. Incredible constitution."

What happened to it

"Did anybody ever do anything with it? Of course not, because nobody ever heard of these people in Washington DC, and nobody even wanted to read their silly constitution. Instead, we've had a period of what, 15, 16 years of fighting and civil war and chaos and death."

The lesson he draws is general: "the United States might think that it's the good guy all the time. The United States might think that it can impose a peace on a country like Venezuela. And it never works out that way. It never works out the way the policy makers think it's going to work out."

See also

- Muammar Gaddafi
- No plan for day two
- Venezuela regime change (2026)
