I arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order. But Libya was already on its way to becoming a failed state ruled by competing warlords, as my airport experience affirmed. “Libya is a failed state,” Barah Mikail, associate professor at Saint Louis University in Madrid, tells me in a phone interview. The Trump Administration has no coherent policy towards Libya, which has given a free hand to the other intervening powers. “If this stops, we’ll have a different landscape.”Reese Erlich’s nationally distributed column, Foreign Correspondent, appears every two weeks.

Source: Libya Today July 02, 2020 18:33 UTC