Posted on 05/19/2016 8:03:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
Earlier today, The Guardian published an article detailing how foreign leaders were gathering in Vienna to discuss how to address the humanitarian disaster/ISIS haven they themselves created in Libya. As usual, the key agenda item revolved around whether the U.S. and its allies should ship weapons into the arena to inspire, you know, freedom and democracy.
Reading the piece leaves you with a clear sense of what a quagmire it really is. For example:
Leading foreign ministers from Europe and the Middle East are to meet in Vienna on Monday under the joint chairmanship of the US and Italy to discuss how to bolster support for the UN-backed Libyan government in the face of deepening splits in the country over political legitimacy, oil resources and Islamic State.
Special forces from the US, UK, France and Italy are operating in various parts of Libya, sometimes backing different military forces and hindering efforts to reunite Libyan politics behind the UN government of Fayez al-Sarraj.
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Sarraj has been trying to broaden his authority in Tripoli since he and his political allies arrived in late March, taking over key institutions such as the central bank and the National Oil Corporation, but he still faces a rival administration, and military power, in the east. Disputes between the factions are such that bankers on one side are depriving the other access to the code to a bank vault containing badly needed cash to pay staff. Different groups are also trying to export oil.
Officials say that at the Vienna meeting on Monday, which will be held under the joint chairmanship of the US and Italy, the fledgling Tripoli administration is likely to submit a list of requests for western partners to assist its forces with arms, training and intelligence. The meeting will be chaired by the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the Italian foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni.
Didn't Barak Obama just a few months ago assure the American people that a was good and we with the world because, while yes- ISIS was creating Hell on Earth in Syria and Iraq, He, Barak Obama, had ISIS contained and “boxed in” to a small area of Syria and Iraq.
Now, just a few months later, we find ISIS is heavily entrenched in Libya, Egypt's Sinai between Egypt and Israel, Afghanistan, Tunisia, the Gaza Strip , Qatar, Turkey and the European Union and Scandinavia
Obama is either an incompetent liar and fabulists of epic proportion s or he is an outright traitor providing aid, comfort and protection to ISIS
There is ample hard evidence to support both hypothesis with more hard evidence supporting the latter
Didn't Barak Obama just a few months ago assure the American people that all was good with the world because, while yes- ISIS was creating Hell on Earth in Syria and Iraq, He, Barak Obama, had ISIS contained and “boxed in” to a small area of Syria and Iraq.
Now, just a few months later, we find ISIS is heavily entrenched in Libya, Egypt's Sinai between Egypt and Israel, Afghanistan, Tunisia, the Gaza Strip , Qatar, Turkey and the European Union and Scandinavia
Obama is either an incompetent liar and fabulists of epic proportion s or he is an outright traitor providing aid, comfort and protection to ISIS
There is ample hard evidence to support both hypothesis with more hard evidence supporting the latter
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