(ThyBlackMan.com) Whether you believe that Muammar Gaddafi was a corrupt dictator or a leader who worked to provide the highest standard of living on the African continent, the U.S.-backed NATO invasion of Libya was unjust, unlawful, and immoral. Libya is a sovereign nation and as such has the right to operate as it sees fit within its recognized geographic borders. Any violation of a nation’s sovereignty must be done legally and not to engage in militarized diplomacy in order to affect regime change.
On March 17, 2011, the United Nations (UN) adopted UN Resolution 1973. 
This formed the legal basis for the military intervention in Libya, authorized the international community to establish a no-fly zone and to use all means necessary (short of foreign occupation) to protect civilians. The problem with the resolution is that it directly contradicts the UN Charter’s strict limits on military (or Chapter 7) actions. These actions are only sanctioned when responding to threats to international peace and security. There was never any evidence presented that Libya was threatening international peace; this was a civil war. The sovereign Libyan government was responding to a threat by a loose confederation of tribal militias, domestic rebels, an armed military force that was backed by other nations such as France, Britain, and the US. Any sovereign government is well within its rights to defend itself against such an attack.
As mainstream American media reported on this story, it failed to provide insight and perspectives from the African Union and credible sources from the African continent. A group of over 600 concerned African leaders issued a statement warning about Africa being recolonized as NATO supported the Libyan rebels. Former African National Congress President Thabo Mbeki, Professor Shadrack Gutto of the University of South Africa, former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, head of the Politics and Foreign Policy Department at the University of Johannesburg Professor Chris Landsberg, and hundreds of others condemned the “misuse of the United Nations Security Council to engage in militarized diplomacy to effect regime change in Libya” and the “marginalization of the African Union.”
The UN action was rationalized as a humanitarian mission. President Obama defended U.S. intervention and NATO involvement by stating, “In this particular country – Libya; at this particular moment, we were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale.
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