Sarkozy, Gaddafi, and the Fall of Libya

by Nicholas Reed

Nicholas Reed argues that Sarkozy’s five-year sentence lays bare the Libyan cash-for-access in 2007, France’s 2011 rush to smash Gaddafi’s Pan-African project, and a neo-colonial calculus that destroyed Libya.

The criminal case of former French President Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Western powers, particula…