This week, the worst storm in recent memory pounded the Green Mountains in eastern Libya with rain, pushing two poorly maintained, half-century-old dams to their limit.
Many people in Libya are calling what happened a tsunami, not a flood, to attempt to capture the physics and power of the devastation.
For Libya it will be impossible, given the disaster zone’s sudden isolation, lack of equipment and depth of the country’s political dysfunction.
But it’s the United States’ unique and tragic history in Libya, its technical expertise and depth of resources in the region, that create a moral obligation for America to step into this breach.
The United States left most of the rebuilding to its European allies.
Persons:
Libya’s, Muammar Gaddafi, Gaddafi’s
Organizations:
United
Locations:
Libya, Derna, Derna’s, Italy, United States, Benghazi, NATO