Posted on 09/01/2014 10:35:30 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
When conservatives criticize the Obama administration over the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, much of the attention is trained on the security failures preceding the raid, the dishonest public spin campaign after the fact, the lack of accountability nearly two years later, and the still-unanswered questions on a host of fronts. But that lethal event was merely a symptom of the White House's broader, unraveling foreign policy. The president intervened in Libya in 2011, deploying US military resources to help a rebel fighting force depose and dispatch murderous dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The Libya conflict was paradigmatic of Obama's approach to war: 'Leading from behind,' aerial bombardment, extremely light footprint. War from the air. War without Congressional approval. And war, in this case, with no clear strategic objective. The result of that conflict was, in Obama's judgment, an example of how the international "community is supposed to work," as he declared at the time.
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When (inevitably) their brilliant plans don't work, its never their fault.
Their plans are right - its reality that's the problem.
Yep. The Libyan people were so much better off before Obama and his muslim brotherhood invaded.
reality is the problem. lol
Somewhere near the bottom of this pile of failures and negligence, is the belief that Islam can be democratized, and Muslims can learn Western values through that democracy. We need better thinking and people to do it, if it isn’t too late already.
“We came, we saw, we skittered away and left them to the wolves.” - Hitlery
“Ah ain’t no ways tard of rewritin’ histry!”
They really eat sh*t don’t they?
Ain’t that the truth. When reality conflicts with theory, most people adjust their theory. Not progressives, they lie about reality.
“Who started a war to get Qadaffi’s riches?
It was the Democrats, those sons-of-bit**es.”
Hillary wanted to tout Libya as a success story, which is why she refused Chris Stevens' repeated requests for more security. He was sent to Benghazi to prepare for a planned visit by Hillary herself later in September which was supposed to highlight how the Obama administration's handling of Libya had been a great success.
The mortars used against the US compound were operated by men who were well-trained. Timmerman thinks they were Iranians (who had lots of experience with mortars in the Iran-Iraq War). Definitely there were Iranians there in Benghazi at the time.
The main takeaway from the book is that Obama and Hillary are even worse than I thought.
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