Libya……there is more to the situation than the GOP would have us believe….there is more than the deaths in Benghazi….but then there is little political revenue out of what is truly happening…..
Libya has faded from the news…..there has been some much more important news to cover….like the Oscars…or Madonna falling and breaking a hip (not really…but she is getting old)……or a train wreck that effects less than 1% of the population…..oh so much more……worthless mind numbing fecal matter…..
But while you were being lulled into stupidity by the media….death and destruction continues in North Africa….you remember Libya that country that we had to intervene because of a growing humanitarian crisis, right?
Four years on……since NATO intervene and got Qaddafi murdered….. and so far it is a carbon copy of the Middle East once the US steps in and brings them “freedom”……..so….,what has been accomplished by the removal of the despot?
Civil war…..more civilian deaths…..possible a genocide of black Libyans…..all made possible by the stupidity of American foreign policy…….we sent them a Libyan general that has been on the payroll of CIA for almost 30 years….Haftar is his name…….and now his is positioning himself to become the new tyrant of Libya……
The president of Libya’s elected parliament has proposed the appointment of General Khalifa Haftar, who leads his own troops, as commander of the army loyal to the government based in the east of the country, the parliament spokesman said on Wednesday.
The decision shows the increasing influence of military figures in the official government and parliament, which has been forced to operate from eastern Libya since an armed group called Libya Dawn seized the capital Tripoli in summer.
Keep in mind that is how Qaddafi got his start…in the military and he lead a coup that ousted the king at the time, Idris..
This could be good in only one aspect…..he could bring about a ceasefire among militias…..but then…..at what price?
While I agree that the US has been neglecting the situation in Libya…..a situation that they help create for far too long…..and now people like McCain is once again calling for intervention….but for now he wants to arm the ‘moderates’…………….I do not understand his obsession with moderates but what the Hell…he is calling for more arms in a country flooded with arms…….especially now that a jihad element is showing it head…..ISIS….that is right I said ISIS is supposedly starting to show in Libya.
A few ‘experts’ think that if a possible unity government can be formed that the rise of jihad groups will slow….and that is where Haftar bows in……if CIA can control him then we have a ‘friend’ in the fight…..as it is right now…..there are few friends of the US……
It seems that many are pissed about what the US has created in Libya….since Qaddafi’s death the country has become a stretch of land that has refugees living on handouts, cities like Benghazi are basically ghost towns, no one knows which militia is fighting which militia……and all the while the rest of the world is worried about the oil reserves……I think I can understand why some would be pissed.
The next question to ask is……..Will the US be able to pursue and confront ISIS beyond the borders of Iraq/Syria? Americans may be willing to go beyond those borders but is it capable of such an over extension?
The Military-Industrial Complex (M-IC) would be thrilled with the necessity to re-arm more frequently than today…..but will the American people allow a war that is truly without end?
Please believe me when I say…..a war without end is exactly what we Americans are looking at and we will allow it to continue as long as the government controls our information on said war. Apathy will be our downfall and the MSM feeds that apathy.
And that brings us back to Libya…….will the extension of our war on ISIS begin in Libya?
A question that will need to be asked and then answered.
We exacted our revenge on Qaddafi for Berlin and Lockerbie………after that we care not. And then we will once again fret over a hatred for our foreign policy…..our enemies are of our own making.
I have noticed over the past few years how The U.S. seems to have this “thing” about destabilizing other countries and then finding themselves involved in conflicts that have the potential to rage on for decades. Why can we not simply use our military strength as a deterrent and for the protection of our own nation? Why do we have to always be stitting strife and conflict in other countries — some of which do not particularly love us anyway?
Most do not like the fact that we seem to want our noses everywhere….our foreign policy is a dinosaur and that will be problematic every time….
The military hawks always seem to assume that removing a despot will allow the people to form a government more representative of the people, if not at least friendly to the U.S. It’s an old perception that simply falls apart in light of the anti-American sentiment in this part of the world today. With the rise of violent opposition groups it seems better to leave a despot in place we know, and perhaps even control to some degree, minimizing instability, than aid in his overthrow and ensure upheaval that will come back to bite us.
Oh what a web we have weaved.
That was the point I tried to make back in 2003….Saddam is a dick but he would keep wolves from our door……and as they say….the rest is history…..
A vicious cycle that, I fear, will not end, given the current foreign policy.
No end and will expand……