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“The Arab Spring’s Winter” — Libya, Syria, Yemen, and the Pattern Continues

  • Writer: Jeff Kellick
    Jeff Kellick
  • Apr 25
  • 1 min read

Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever Wars Ep. 16



Episode 16 examines American intervention in Libya, Syria, and Yemen during and after the Arab Spring—three cases that repeated every error of the Iraq War under a president elected because of his opposition to it. The episode documents the corruption of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine in Libya, the fiction of “moderate rebels” in Syria, American complicity in Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe, and the role of allied governments in shaping American policy toward their interests at American cost.

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