Showing posts with label Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It By Ear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It By Ear. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2015


By Nancy A. Youssef, Oct 20, 2015 The Daily Beast

She still defends the invasion as ‘smart power at its best.’ But war backers like Clinton had no plan for securing the country, says ex-Pentagon chief Bob Gates.
When Hillary Clinton appears before Congress’s special committee on Benghazi Thursday, she’ll likely be asked all the wrong questions.

Clinton will be peppered with queries about why she kept a private email server, what caused the 2012 attacks on the U.S. special consulate in Benghazi, and how come U.S. forces didn’t respond more quickly to the strikes. But the really important issues—the questions longstanding followers of the U.S. and NATO intervention want answered—are: Why did Hillary Clinton push for strikes that contributed to the fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi? And why didn’t the Obama administration bother to plan for the all-too-predictable chaos that came next?

 
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