Hillary the Butcher:
Libya: How Hillary Destroyed a Country
Started by Robert M
She’s learned nothing from her blood-soaked failure
“We came, we saw, he died,” exclaimed an ebullient Hillary Clinton,
as she exulted over the horrific death of Libyan leader Moammar
Gaddafi, who was sodomized with a bayonet before being brutally murdered
by rampaging militiamen. Visiting Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the
American Secretary of State was eager to take credit for the
“liberation” of yet another Muslim country by Western powers acting in
concert. An extensive and quite revealing New York Times investigation (Pt. 1 here, Pt. 2 here)
reports on “a ‘ticktock’ that described her starring role in the events
that had led to this moment. The timeline, her top policy aide, Jake
Sullivan, wrote, demonstrated Mrs. Clinton’s ‘leadership/ownership/stewards
These
days, however, out on the campaign trail, Mrs. Clinton is not quite so
eager to take ownership of what can only be characterized as an
unmitigated disaster, a case history dramatizing the perils of “liberal”
interventionism from inception to bloody denouement.
Mrs.
Clinton was easily won over by the Libyan rebels who presented a
utopian view of what the post-revolutionary era would look like: there
would be free elections, a free media, women would be able to “do it
all,” and everyone would get a pony. They “’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.’”
Confirmation
bias in a writer or reporter is fatal, but only to his/her own career:
in a Secretary of State it is a death sentence for thousands. And that’s
exactly how it turned out in Hillary’s case.
To this day, Clinton avers that “it’s too soon to
tell” whether the Libya intervention qualifies as an unmitigated
failure – even in the face of marauding militias, no less than two
self-declared governments, the horrific death of an American ambassador
at the hands of the very militias we empowered, and the incursion of the
Islamic State, al Qaeda, and other terrorist outfits. She refused to be
interviewed for the Times article.
While
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden opposed
regime change, Clinton took the side of the younger “back-benchers,” as
the Times calls them, who wanted to go in there and “get on the
right side of history.” The misnamed “Arab Spring” was in full bloom,
and the media was pushing the idea that this was a great awakening of
“democracy.”
Hillary,
who had hesitated at first to jump on the bandwagon during the Egyptian
events, made up for lost time in Libya. She “pressed for a secret
American program that supplied arms to rebel militias, an effort never
before confirmed,” the Timesreports. Those arms would be used to
attack a CIA outpost in Benghazi, where Ambassador Stevens would fall at
the hands of these very militiamen.
While
initially the US was purportedly acting only to prevent civilian deaths
at the hands of Gaddafi – a “humanitarian disaster” that turned out to
be nothing but media-driven war propaganda –
Hillary and her staff soon fell down the slippery slope to actively
aiding the rebels. The ‘responsibility to protect” soon became another
regime change operation, as in Iraq.
“’We
don’t want another war,’ she told [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey]
Lavrov, stressing that the mission was limited to protecting civilians.
‘I take your point about not seeking another war,’ she recalled him
responding. ‘But that doesn’t mean that you won’t get one.’” Read the Whole Article
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