What do you want people to say? No one is going to defend it. At the time it probably seemed like the right idea so we didn’t see another civil war and the country develop into a battleground like Syria. In hindsight it’s not better off because of the power vacuum that was created. Hillary created slaves because of the power vacuum left in Libya, Bush created al-Qaeda and ISIS because of the power vacuum left in Iraq. These things always have unforeseen consequences.
Yes, but the Obama administration created two (2) new fronts, while W. was only responsible for one (1).
Here in the US, the public may jeer W. because he put regular Army and Marine troops on-the-ground, and laud Obama for not doing so, but outside the US, it's viewed very differently.
Because in the end, I don’t think the Secretary of State controls that level of military involvement. I’ve already admitted consequences have been suffered.
Ummm, it was Hillary's call entirely ... other than President Obama's approval.
President Obama, to his credit, was already wary of getting involved in Libya, even as the EU was pushing for more US involvement via NATO, because of what he had already started in Syria. Obama had learned, like Bill Clinton in Somalia, that the little things have major, consequences, including confusion and underlying lack of strategy.
But Hillary Clinton, learning from her husband who let hundreds of thousands die in Rowanda after Somalia -- didn't want to leave an African nation at the mercy of a warlord yet another time. It also had to do with Saddam during her husband's administration too.
So she argued for the complete removal -- regime change -- in Libya, no different than W.
It took even the EU leaders back, but they trust the US. She promised Obama, like W., that it would be over ... quick.
Honest question, would you have rathered the US not create a no-fly zone and allow civilians to be decimated by air forces? Syria 2.0?
But that's
not what the US did!
Our NATO allies
only wanted to do that ... but
Hillary argued for wholesale regime change! Even if the US didn't do it itself, that's what Hillary put in sequence to happen, purposefully!
The result? The US Executive had troops involved in a war more than 90 days without Congressional approval ... the first violation of the War Powers Act in the history of the United States.
It's part of the trifecta of abuse that makes Obama 1 of the 10 worst Presidents in the eyes of Libertarians -- Violating War Power Act (Endless War without Congressional approval), Drone Rules of Engagement (purposeful, known killing of US citizens) and Throwing Reporters in Jail (2nd time, both done by Democrats).
