“In media interviews over the weekend, US military chief Adm. Michael Mullen was hard-pressed to explain either the goal of the military strikes in Libya or their strategic rationale.”
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It is very simple to comprehend and define. Aid and assist whichever is the most retrograde jihadist movement and group operating in any given area. In Iran, passively assist the Islamic Republic’s purge of dissenters through silence and inaction. In Egypt where the choice is between a lukewarm ally and a hostile, anti-Christian Muslim Brotherhood radical faction, support the Muslim Brotherhood. In Libya, where the choice is between an obnoxious and deranged but relatively stable and aging dictator and Al-Qaeda inspired and organized insurgents, support Al-Qaeda cells and bases.
What is hard or complex about grasping this agenda? The plan is so simple that even a community organizer can understand it.
Yes, I think you’ve found the key to it all...
Certainly seems so.
And check this little nugget......
-—COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi’s regime secretly provided information to Britain and the US on Islamic extremists in the east of Libya, according to leaked diplomatic cables and intelligence sources.
The names of hundreds of suspects were passed to the CIA and British intelligence.
“There was a strong, shared concern between Gaddafi and the US and UK Governments about radical Sunni jihadist terrorists, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),” Paul Pillar, a CIA veteran who negotiated with Libya over its nuclear program, told The Times.
Diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks paint eastern Libya as a fertile ground for radical extremism. One source told US officials in 2008 that for young men from Derna, a city east of Benghazi, “resistance against coalition forces in Iraq was an important act of ‘jihad’ and a last act of defiance against the Gaddafi regime”.
....In contrast, Dr Pillar maintained that the information was essential. “Some regimes paint their local opponents as part of a larger terrorist picture but this wasn’t the case here. There have been an awful lot of Libyans in al-Qa’ida and among the violent resistance in Iraq and in Afghanistan.”
Even among the rebels now hoping to overthrow the regime are “radical Islamists who would be of concern”, he warned. “I think there’s a high chance for people who would alarm us having a major influence should Gaddafi fall.”
another leaked cable said that “Libya has acted as a critical ally in US counter-terrorism efforts, and is considered one of our primary partners in combatting the flow of foreign fighters”. The cable, sent from the US Embassy in Tripoli on August 10, 2009, emphasised that the US-Libya “strategic partnership in this field has been highly... beneficial to both nations”.
Entire piece here, including dissenters of this view.
And guess when cooperation with Daffy stopped? 2009.