It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal. On December 14, some 20 US special forces troops were sent to Libya to fight ISIS, in a deployment the administration apparently had no intention of telling anyone about. If everything went well, we probably still wouldn’t know about it.
Instead, the Libyan Air Force publicized the arrival of the out-of-uniform but heavily-armed troops, and local commanders quickly expelled the US troops, turning just another little secret war into a particularly embarrassing incident.
And it’s one the US seems increasingly frustrated about, as it’s not just the “miscommunication” they say happened that day, but the overall lack of a compliant and reliable faction for the US to claim its military operations in Libya are centered at helping.
The US is eager to extend the ISIS war into Libya, but without some at least nominal ally, there’s no way they can continue the strategy of tiny escalations of a few dozen fighters at a time, building the war without the big initial deployment that needs an actual debate.
You mean all those “moderate rebels” Hillary and her interventionist buddies said were there….weren’t? Another well planned expedition, eh?
Has the USA not done enough damage to a nation that had the highest standard of living in Africa, provided jobs and managed to reduce the flow of migrants to Europe, kept black citizens and visitors in safety?(the “dictator” we supported when it suited us, of course.
What; they finaly realizing that there is no honor among thieves, rapist and murderer’s, and plunderers of nations resources?
When each of those US mercenary’s set foot upon Libyan soil they were not there for humanitarian mission, they came to kill Libyan’s and further subjugate the peoples of Libya so that their richness of oil would be under US and Euro control.
Hilary destroyed Libya as proof that she knows how to wield pure power and theirnFrench allies coild once more enter Africa even if once more , as in WWII , under US military poliyical/ financial indebtness.
You can always find opportunist and chatlatans and Quislings who will take pay while subjugating their peoples for the foreign powers, but damn you cannot expect them to only kiss our american ass, you cannot buy loyalty and pay leadership that has all ass kissing flunkys as USnpolitics and Economics military employees do.
WE are conquering bastards, our mercenarys are damn well paid and actually quite coddled when not out on actually asssassination or generating genocidal warfare.
They play big boy roided up games and sometikes they who US Lords it over find sneaky ways for payback.
It is a game deadly to millions of non US people, but we americans cannot stop what the US people love doing.
Where is the hero of modern democracy, the CIA’s picked man, General Haftar? Hiding from the rest of the Libyans who’d like to bugger him with a bayonet, too?