International Law Suffers Another Blow in Libya ConflictThe United States invoked the so-called responsibility to protect doctrine as justification for NATO military intervention in Libya, based on fears that the Libyan government was about to enter, and eliminate systematically, resistance in the eastern city of Benghazi. This was based on alleged statements made by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, claiming he would hunt armed resisters, door to door. In blunt terms, Obama said theWestern-led air campaign had stopped Gaddafis advances and halted a slaughter that could have shaken the stability of an entire region and stained the conscience of the entire world. I can report that we have stopped Gaddafis deadly advance, the US presidentsaid. We will deny the regime arms, cut off its supply of cash, assist the opposition, and work with other nations to hasten the day when Gaddafi leaves power, he said. Now, fighting has erupted across Libya once more and rebels are rising up against the client-regime installed by NATO late last year. NATOs proxies in Tripoli have stated, according to the Guardians report, Confusion rife as Libyan army storms town of Bani Walid: A lot of people who supported Gaddafi are hiding now in Bani Walid. We have a list of names. They are fighting very well because they know they are going to die soon. Clearly, this constitutes as clear a case for R2P as the West claimed it had in 2011. With Qaddafi declared dead and his government swept aside in a bloodbath of reprisals and atrocities, documented safely in retrospect by disingenuous international institutions such as Human Rights Watch and the US State Department-affiliated Amnesty International, the people in Bani Walid are fighting for much more than just the fact that they are supporters of Qaddafi. In the divided Libya that emerged from NATOs military intervention, sectarian violence, discrimination, and marginalization has ensued, betraying the democratic values NATO claims to have brought to Libya shores. The persisting resistance in Libya stems not only from a sense of injustice regarding the installation of a government by foreign interests through the use of foreign military force, but also from increasing anger over injustice purveyed by the new proxy-regime itself. Libya, like Iraq and Afghanistan are all warnings of the dangers of international law that presumes primacy over state sovereignty. NATOs failure in Libya, exposed from the beginning as a war of aggression built on a pack of verified lies, should provide ample evidence as to why NATO should be excluded from any further role in international conflict resolution beyond the borders of its membership, indefinitely. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 