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Ten years after the attacks in Benghazi that killed US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, Libya is again on the brink of a civil war. The attacks sapped the United States’ willingness to engage on Libya, leaving room for external actors to pursue their own agendas in the country. Four problematic narratives emerged, including one from former president Barack Obama himself, who declared that ‘failing to plan for the day after’ the intervention in Libya was the worst mistake of his presidency. Despite American reluctance to deeply engage in addressing Libya’s political and security disorder, the Biden administration could take several practical steps to help bring stability to a potentially prosperous country. These include limiting foreign interference and sanctioning one of Libya’s most polarising actors, Khalifa Haftar.
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