Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama, in 2011, illegally launched a drive-by war in Libya (because regime-change wars have great track records in the Muslim world), and the world continues to bear the negative effects.
The war was a bad idea at the time. Obama never sought nor received congressional authorization. Once the U.S.-led coalition decapitated Libya by killing Moammar Gadhafi, liberals taunted Obama’s critics.
GOPers who criticized Obama’s approach in Libya … wrong again.
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) October 20, 2011
The Obama administration did a touchdown dance and even campaigned for reelection on the regime change, while walking away.
Obama’s drive-by war predictably left a leadership vacuum that turned Libya into a breeding ground for terrorists and militias — but also a training ground. And some of those trained in the environment Obama created have now killed the president of Chad in a violent armed rebellion.
Read the New York Times coverage today:
And this:
“In the chaos that followed the ouster and death of Col. Qaddafi in 2011, rival Libyan factions hired African mercenaries to fight alongside their own forces. The Chadians, who have a reputation as dogged desert fighters, were in high demand.”
Somehow, Obama has escaped accountability for all this, as has his vice president, Joe Biden. Neither was ever made to answer for this illegal, unwise war, which a decade later is still making the world worse.
