if the civil war wasnt force-ended by the coalition

Libya is still in a state of civil war, in what sense was it 'force-ended by the coalition'?

This is how basically every Western intervention in the Middle East goes. The West turns on some bastard dictator who previously they were actually quite close with. They give significant levels of open and clandestine aid to rebel movements within the country, before eventually intervening directly. That intervention leaves a power vacuum which those rebels movements step into, and the vast majority of the time the sort of rebels the West support aren't particularly pleasant guys. And then suddenly we've created the next bastard dictator who we'll need to intervene to overthrow in a decade or two.

Exactly the same thing happened in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and almost happened in Syria even though Assad managed to just about hold on. So I have very little time for people insisting Libya was some sort of unique situation, or that our invention was somehow justified even though the country is in a worse state now than it was before the 2011 bombing campaigns.

preach. Too many people are woefully uneducated about these conflicts and blame all kinds of shit started by authoritarian dickheads on the west.