Slave Trade is booming in Libya since Gaddafi has been overthrown

[Pericles]

Counterpoint on the inevitable "we shouldn't have overthrown Gaddafi": We could have developed some sort of Marshall Plan-esque fund to rebuild the country, contingent on the cessation of violence and a unity government, and provided incentives for the militias to stand down. That would have prevented the slave trade and second civil war.

My main disagreement with the handling of Libya is that we didn't do enough, and basically abandoned it after Gaddafi was removed. Did we abandon Germany or Japan when their empires had been destroyed? No, we rebuilt them, and made them stronger than ever.

[Pericles]

Good job Hil.

Trump took the same position.
"I can’t believe what our country is doing," Trump said in 2011 "Gadhafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around. We have soldiers all over the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage and that’s what it is: It’s a carnage.
You talk about things that have happened in history; this could be one of the worst,Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically, stop him from doing it, and save these lives. This is absolutely nuts. We don’t want to get involved and you’re gonna end up with something like you’ve never seen before. But we have go in to save these lives; these people are being slaughtered like animals," Trump said. "It’s horrible what’s going on; it has to be stopped. We should do on a humanitarian basis, immediately go into Libya, knock this guy out very quickly, very surgically, very effectively, and save the lives.

"At this point, if you don't get rid of Gadhafi, it's a major, major black eye for this country."-Donald Trump, March 28, 2011