Ken Berwitz
As ugly as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton\’s actions were during and after the Benghazi, Libya massacre – and as ugly as Hillary Clinton\’s lies about the massacre have been from then right up to the present – it was not the only disaster resulting from the Obama administration\’s performance in that godforsaken country.
Excerpted from article at Agence France Presse (AFP):
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The Islamic Stategroup has significantly expanded its control over Libya, fueling demand by thecountry\’s warring parties for more arms to confront the threat, UN experts havetold the Security Council.
IS has successfully recruited young men from local tribes,offering them protection and benefits but it has also enlisted militaryofficers from the former regime of Moamer Kadhafi, said the report by the panelof experts who report to a UN sanctions committee.
IS jihadists have cemented their hold on the coastal city ofSirte, wiping out opposition and the group is “currently the mostsignificant political and military actor in the region,” said the reportwhich was submitted to the council on Wednesday.
The extremist group hasalso made inroads in Tripoli and in the western city of Sabrata, boosting itspresence through local recruitment and foreign fighters who transit throughTurkey and Tunisia.
Extremists fromsub-Saharan Africa have traveled through Sudan to join IS ranks in Sirte andBenghazi, the report said, confirming fears that the Libyan IS branch isseeking to draw recruits from other parts of the continent.
As much of a hellhole as Libya was under moamar qaddafi, removing him has made things exponentially worse.
Now Libya has no functioning government, and has become a huge, strategically located, oil-rich haven for terrorists of every kind…with ISIS being the biggest and most successful – i.e. most barbarically murderous – of them all.
President Obama, with Hillary Clinton\’s full acquiescence, ordered the bombing of Libya for over a half year – And did it without asking for authorization from congress, which meant he was working outside the constitution – a little something most mainstream media conveniently ignored on his behalf then…and conveniently ignore on Hillary Clinton\’s behalf today.
Today\’s Libya, as described above, is the direct result of these actions.
Now: when will one or another of the intrepid, loaded-with-professionalism-and-integrity “journalists” covering Ms. Clinton ask her about it? Ask her to explain how the bombing which ousted qaddafi could take place without congressional authorization? Demand to know why she, as Secretary of State, did not speak up when it was happening? And whether she takes responsibility for what Libya has become?
Don\’t count on it happening any time soon. Certainly not before election day.
