Officially, the US supports the “unity government” in Libya, whose territory includes a single naval base in Tripoli and a few nearby buildings. In practice, the US is seen backing the two other extent would-be governments just a seriously.
That’s becoming more and more obvious as the Pentagon is increasingly open about its ongoing ground operations in Libya, where they are “meeting a variety of Libyans.” Less important that the sight-seeing is that the US has established two bases, one in Misrata and one near Benghazi.
You’ll notice that neither of those places is right next to the naval base in Tripoli. Rather, the Misrata base is in territory held by the Tripoli parliament, a rival government, and the site near Benghazi is in the sphere of the Tobruk parliament, another “UN-backed government.”
US officials have been increasingly frank about their desire to put more ground troops in Libya, conditioning it on a request from the “Libyan government.” The existing operations suggest that they aren’t particularly selective about which government that ultimately is.
Destruction of Libya was one of worlds most recent acts of pure depravity and love of power for powers sake, and it has, had, little to do with national intrest biut more of a personal useage of sovereign powers because those who wanted can do so at will.
No no no….depravity was the work of certain DoD officials and WH staff not doing their job when a family friend of ours died in that annex attack…We all saw the movie after the book (which only some of us read because it was really bad for some of our friends etc). We are FAR FAR FAR behind where we should be deaing with Sirte and the lawlessness that Ansar Al Sharia (ASL) and Daesh have been causing (as well as all those coastal areas where they are doing the mass beheadings you AREN’T seeing in the news….Not like their barbarism they televise in Syria, Tunisia, etc….I mean, it’s so much more than that in Libya right now
In my opinion, this whole “let our troops come home…no more war…etc etc etc” is getting old. Every dude I call a real friend who’s spent his whole life prepping to be in his current US SOF (Special Operations) unit, wants nothing more than to finish what they started with Daesh (ISIL) in every country they’re in. Not ONE of them wants to come home, and not very many locals in Sirte (Libya) or Kurdistan want the U.S to leave either. There’s no oil promises or resources we get from bombing Somali terror groups…this is seriously imperative that someone acts…why do you think the Brits led the way this time?