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Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It By Ear,’ Gates Says
The Daily Beast ^ | October 20th, 2015 | Nancy Youssef

Posted on 10/20/2015 5:35:42 PM PDT by Mariner

When Hillary Clinton appears before Congress’s special committee on Benghazi Thursday, she’ll likely be asked all the wrong questions.

Clinton will be peppered with queries about why she kept a private email server, what caused the 2012 attacks on the U.S. special consulate in Benghazi, and how come U.S. forces didn’t respond more quickly to the strikes. But the really important issues—the questions longstanding followers of the U.S. and NATO intervention want answered—are: Why did Hillary Clinton push for strikes that contributed to the fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi? And why didn’t the Obama administration bother to plan for the all-too-predictable chaos that came next?

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabspring; clinton; libya; libyanwar; oup
Some Excellent reporting here.
1 posted on 10/20/2015 5:35:42 PM PDT by Mariner
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"Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It By Ear,’ Gates Says"

Used in conjunction with "trial-and-error."
2 posted on 10/20/2015 5:39:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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Government by Sportsnight.

Casey McCall: I have a plan.
Dan Rydell: What's the plan?
Casey McCall: First, we show up.
Dan Rydell: And then what?
Casey McCall: Then we see what happens.

3 posted on 10/20/2015 5:48:46 PM PDT by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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Yes. Real Reporting. Real questions. We seem to get sidetracked.


4 posted on 10/20/2015 5:51:31 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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This is rich.

Libtards used to kvetch about G.W. Bush not having a post-Saddam plan. This was a lie. There was a plan-- but it wasn't any good.

So now we see testimony that the Hildebeast or the Big Zero didn't have any plan for post-revolution Libya. And the punk ass Libs will not cop to this. They won't even read about it probably.

5 posted on 10/20/2015 6:00:57 PM PDT by Lysandru
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Play it by ear is good for smart and shrewd. While Hillary does have a shrewd team, what they lack in smarts they make up in fanaticism.


6 posted on 10/20/2015 6:01:00 PM PDT by Fhios
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“All-too-predictable chaos”

Yep. That’s what she wanted.

Easier to steal stuff that way.


7 posted on 10/20/2015 6:06:59 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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We came. We saw. He died. Libya is aflame. We f***ed up.


8 posted on 10/20/2015 7:09:50 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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what happened in libya happened for TWO DIFFERENT REASONS:

1. obama supports the caliphate and anyone furthering the concept
hence he aids and abets our enemies both isis/al queda and iran

2. clinton did it for the greed factor... corrupt business deals and self enrichment

khadaffy had been strongly supporting the USA effort to fight al queda for self serving reasons. libya was the LARGEST SOURCE OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN IRAQ, and Khadaffy had to suppress them at home... he provided USA with invaluable intel and was cooperating on the fight.. with excellent results. he expected the use to support him in return.

khadaffy had volunteered to leave with his family but clinton assisted in his murder so her bluementhal contacts could benefit and hence sidney and hillary...
it was more or less a stalemate with al queda in the east and khadaffy in the west..
obama saw to it that the balance shifted to al queda.

obama supplied 650 tons of arms in one shipment alone via turkey to isis.
obama was aware two months in advance of the coming attack on the ambassador based on telcon intercepts ordering the attack form al zawahery (muslim brotherhood member and current #1 in al queda) and egyptian president and muslim brotherhood member morsi sent reps to the attack to negotiate to get custody of the ambassador to be used to ransom the release of the blind sheik (wtc ‘93)
obama was fully aware of all this and thus refused rescue of the ambassador since his kidnapping would have given obama basis to release gitmo detainees and the blind sheik (#1 above) ...

further proof of obama’s support for al queda is that intel provided the name address and phone numbers of the perpetrators of the attack and obama did NOTHING... DESPITE HIS PROMISES TO THE FAMILIES THAT HE WOULD TRACK THEM DOWN AND ADMINISTER JUSTICE..


9 posted on 10/21/2015 7:28:02 AM PDT by zzwhale
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