Politics
Clinton
as U.S. Secretary of State at that time knew that Libya was no threat to the
U.S. She knew that Muammar Gadhafi had been closely cooperating with the U.S.
in combating Islamist extremism. She probably realized that Gadhafi had a
certain social base due in part to what by Middle Eastern standards was the
relatively equitable distribution of oil income in Libya.
But she
wanted to topple Gadhafi. Over the objections of Secretary of “Defense” Robert
Gates but responding to the urgings of British Prime Minister David Cameron and
French President Nicholas Sarkozy, she advocated war. Why? Not for the reason
advertised at the time. (Does this sound familiar?)
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