More Mission Creep in the GWOT
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 3:12pmPresident Obama has halted the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
President Obama has halted the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
There was a very interesting document leak over the weekend, and it casts a whole new light over America's strategy in Libya.
Why?
First, there was no reason to invade yet another PNAC, neocon target. Khadafi's rule was, if anything, more benign than how it was portrayed to us poor saps on our side of the pond. He was not invading his neighbors, he posed no threat to us or to our allies, and he had some pretty diverse groups under control.
And then, the evil cabal of Sidney blumenthal and Hillary Clinton took over.
And Obama blew it big time because of them.
Libya has four de facto competing governments. The internationally recognized government in the east, an Islamist leaning government in Tripoli, the U.N.-backed unification government, and ISIS. All of them hold large chunks of the country, except for the U.S.-backed unification government, which is actually based in outside the country in Tunis.
1899 -Friedrich Bayer & Co patented acetylsalicylic acid, which it modestly named Bayer Aspirin.
1945 - The spawn of the devil was surreptitiously mixed with a used wet mop, fungi collected from the broken fridge in a college's male dormitory, and a badly edited "do it yourself" book, Egotism for Morons, resulting in the birth of Donald Trump.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
Let's forget for a moment that none of this was approved by the internationally recognised government of Libya.
On Friday, President Obama opened a fourth front in the war against ISIS.
You probably didn't notice because neither the news media nor Congress cared. Bombing countries is simply what this administration does.
You wouldn't know it if you weren't paying close attention, but we have entered the largest military escalation since Obama's failed Afghan 'surge' in 2009-2010.
There are three critical differences between that surge and this one:
What has three governments and is a failed state? That's right, Libya.
The latest Libyan government is based in a hotel in Tunisia because Libya was deemed too unsafe.
The other two existing parliaments in Tripoli and Tobruk have so far refused to recognize the U.N. creation in Tunis.
There was no better example of Hillary's clueless hawkishness than this moment in the recent debate.