Following the death
of Muammar Gaddafi then-US State Secretary Hillary Clinton jokingly
said: "We came, we saw, he died." However, now amid the massive migrant
crisis in Europe, Washington would unlikely react the same way if Syrian
President Bashar Assad repeats the Libyan leader's fate, author Brian
Cloughley believes.
The
US invasion in Iraq, as well as NATO-led airstrikes in Libya and
support of the so-called Syrian moderate rebels have backfired. Not so
much on Washington, but its ally Europe, which is suffering from the
largest migrant crisis since World War II, with hundreds of thousands
fleeing violence in war-torn regions in the Middle East and North
Africa, author and expert in political and military affairs Brian
Cloughley noted.
According to Brian Cloughley, the US war in Iraq has displaced
about 1 in 25 Iraqi citizens, while the violent expansion of the ISIL
jihadist group contributed to more Iraqis fleeing their homes.
