The Obama-Hillary Libya debacle

[mystery-ak]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/the-obama-hillary-libya-debacle.php


Posted on August 4, 2015 by Paul Mirengoff
The Obama-Hillary Libya debacle

Everyone understands by now that our intervention in Libya produced a disaster. But many fail to appreciate the magnitude of the disaster. And few understand that the stated reason for the intervention, to prevent a bloodbath, lacked any real basis in fact.

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Alan Kuperman, an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, provides clarity on these points. The article is called “Obama’s Libya Debacle.” However, given the leading role Hillary Clinton played, the former Secretary of State must take a major portion of the blame, just as she planned to take major credit (see her email traffic with Sidney Blumenthal) when she thought the policy had succeeded.

Here’s how Kuperman summarizes the Libya debacle:

     Libya not only failed to evolve into a democracy, its has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased several fold.

    Rather than helping the U.S. combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and ISIS.

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[Bigun]

Everything Obama-Hillary have touched is a disaster but this one is the cream of the crop of disasters!

[bkepley]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/the-obama-hillary-libya-debacle.php


Posted on August 4, 2015 by Paul Mirengoff
The Obama-Hillary Libya debacle

Everyone understands by now that our intervention in Libya produced a disaster. But many fail to appreciate the magnitude of the disaster. And few understand that the stated reason for the intervention, to prevent a bloodbath, lacked any real basis in fact.

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Alan Kuperman, an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, provides clarity on these points. The article is called “Obama’s Libya Debacle.” However, given the leading role Hillary Clinton played, the former Secretary of State must take a major portion of the blame, just as she planned to take major credit (see her email traffic with Sidney Blumenthal) when she thought the policy had succeeded.

Here’s how Kuperman summarizes the Libya debacle:

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Rather than helping the U.S. combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and ISIS.

Obama and Hillary pretend to be the smart guys.  Libya and Syria are their legacy of incompetence.