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THE Tories have spent 13 times more on bombing Libya than rebuilding it, Commons research has revealed as David Cameron considers dragging Britain into the country’s civil war.
In response to Scottish Nationalist Party concerns, the Commons library has confirmed that some £320 million was spent on military operations and bombing in Libya during Nato’s “humanitarian” intervention in 2011.
Separate government figures show a mere £25 million has been spent on rebuilding infrastructure in the years following the war.
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK