2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHRC's Disastrous Regime Change in Libya Led to Chaos and A Haven for ISIS
This is how Hillary pushed Obama---against his better inclination----to bomb Libya. Part of her neocon perspective, and no doubt influenced by Kissinger, her self-proclaimed role model.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
New York Times Feb 28, 2016
Hllary Clinton's Smart Power and A Dictator's Fall
In her suite at the Westin, she and Mr. Jibril, a political scientist with a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, spoke at length about the fast-moving military situation in Libya. But Mrs. Clinton was clearly also thinking about Iraq, and its hard lessons for American intervention.
The Libya Gamble
An examination of the American intervention in Libya and Hillary Clintons role in it.
Did the oppositions Transitional National Council really represent the whole of a deeply divided country, or just one region? What if Colonel Qaddafi quit, fled or was killed did they have a plan for what came next?
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Mrs. Clinton was won over. Opposition leaders said all the right things about supporting democracy and inclusivity and building Libyan institutions, providing some hope that we might be able to pull this off, said Philip H. Gordon, one of her assistant secretaries. They gave us what we wanted to hear. And you do want to believe.
Her conviction would be critical in persuading Mr. Obama to join allies in bombing Colonel Qaddafis forces.
In fact, Mr. Obamas defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, would later say that in a 51-49 decision, it was Mrs. Clintons support that put the ambivalent president over the line.
The consequences would be more far-reaching than anyone imagined, leaving Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven, a place where the direst answers to Mrs. Clintons questions have come to pass.
This is the story of how a woman whose Senate vote for the Iraq war may have doomed her first presidential campaign nonetheless doubled down and pushed for military action in another Muslim country. As she once again seeks the White House, campaigning in part on her experience as the nations chief diplomat, an examination of the intervention she championed shows her at what was arguably her moment of greatest influence as secretary of state
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Here's what we have in Libya Today:
The self-described Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has long been making a push to capitalize on the chaos in Libya.
For over a year, it has carried out terror attacks, taken over territory and released propaganda from its franchise in Libya. Now, a new assessment from the Pentagon states the number of ISIS fighters in Libya has doubled since the fall to over 5,000, spurring fresh debate among security officials over the possibility of foreign intervention.
Analysts and officials worry that Libya is increasingly becoming a sort of fallback option for ISIS as it loses territory and power in Syria and Iraq.
If we look at the raw numbers, the presence of ISIS is definitely strengthening and growing. I think the security threat they pose is definitely going up, Riccardo Fabiani, senior North Africa analyst at political risk research firm Eurasia Group, told The WorldPost.
The threat ISIS presents in Libya is different than in other nations, and is related both to the group's changing capabilities and to the country's ongoing instability
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/isis-presence-in-libya_us_56b369e2e4b08069c7a6352f
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sasmath
(24 posts)Read Hillary's book. She lays out her strategy on how she lobbied Obama and others on Libya. This was wrote before Libya went to shit tho.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Hillary Clinton has spent much of her presidential campaign running away from her responsibility for the United States disastrous 2011 intervention in Libya. The February 19 release of more emails from her private server may make it harder for her to do so.
In an email with the subject bravo! sent on March 19, 2011the day the United States and its allies began bombing LibyaClinton confidant and former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter appears to praise then-Secretary of State Clinton for convincing a reluctant President Obama to take military action in Libya.
I cannot imagine how exhausted you must be after this week, but I have NEVER been prouder of having worked for you, writes Slaughter, who worked as an advisor to Clinton in the State Department from 2009 to February 3, 2011, and then remained a consultant to the policy planning bureau. Turning POTUS around on this is a major win for everything we have worked for. An earlier email release, which I reported on previously, showed that Slaughter had spent February 2011 imploring Clinton to involve the United States militarily in Libya, insisting that it would change the image of the United States overnight.
Keep your fingers crossed and pray for a soft landing for everyones sake, Clinton replies.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18912/bravo-email-shows-anne-marie-slaughter-congratulating-clinton-on-libya
dogman
(6,073 posts)SamKnause
(13,107 posts)Poor Judgment
#Not With Her
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)She was just climbing that ladder of opportunity. On her way to the first woman in the White House. Screw Libyans.
polly7
(20,582 posts)bvar22 (39,228 posts)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511647122
"Hillary Clintons signature project as Secretary of State the regime change in Libya is now sliding from the tragic to the tragicomic as her successors in the Obama administration adopt increasingly desperate strategies for imposing some kind of order on the once-prosperous North African country torn by civil war since Clinton pushed for the overthrow and murder of longtime Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The problem that Clinton did much to create has grown more dangerous since Islamic State terrorists have gained a foothold in Sirte and begun their characteristic beheading of infidels as well as their plotting for terror attacks in nearby Europe.
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Clintons ultimate vulnerability on Libya is that she was a principal author of another disastrous regime change that has spread chaos not only across the Middle East and North Africa but into Europe, where the entire European Union project, a major post-World War II accomplishment, is now in danger.
Clinton may claim she has lots of foreign policy experience, but the hard truth is that much of her experience has involved making grievous mistakes and bloody miscalculations."
(Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.)
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/01/cleaning-up-hillarys-libyan-mess/
NOW, these Bill Boards have appeared all over Libya dictating how women MUST dress:
For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html
("Pan-African" means African Resources for Africans...NOT Wall Street, the IMF, or Western Banks)