President Obama’s “state of national emergency” related to Libya has been extended yet another year today, with the latest executive order declaring Libya still poses an “extraordinary threat” to US foreign policy interests.
Obama initially issued the order in February of 2011, and despite a US and NATO imposed regime change which followed soon after it has been renewed annually since then.
The regime change was presented as setting the stage for major new oil exports from Libya, which have not materialized as the new pro-West regime has been unable to retain control of the ports.
Internally Libya continues to struggle with unrest, with militias demanding new elections, and a parliament that has decided to indefinitely extend its term in office. They also dealt with a military plane crash today in neighboring Tunisia, which killed 11 people, including Islamist militia leader Meftah Daouadi. Officials said the crash occurred under “mysterious circumstances.”
How any of this constitutes a “national emergency” for the United States anymore is unclear, and indeed it no longer seems “extraordinary” at all, but just business as usual in the new Libya.
We have been in a state of emergency since March 1933. Every President extends it as it is the only way the administrative state functions under the executive (ie writing rules which can put people in prison and fine them – such functions are supposed to be done by congress) would cease to exist without the state of emergency. It is totally anti-law and unconstitutional. Imagine a state of emergency lasting 78 years! When do we get back to normal?
ONCE THE BLOODY DEED WAS DONE THERE WAS NO WAY TO JUSTIFY WHY THEY DID IT.
The paid instigators got their pozitions but the populace lost shirts pants dresses healtcare and free education or governments help to start their buisness .
the old line village tribal self governing of all towns and villes has been overthrown as those leaders either joined the criminals in government or as the latst Islamic leader death under strange circumstances.
HOPEFULLY THOSE NOW KISSIN US ASS IN LIBYA WILL JOIN THE ONES ROBBING TREASURY AND RUNNING TO EUROPE TO LIVE WELL REWARDED FOR SURRENDERING THEIR NATION TO EURO FINANCE ORGS.
This was the perpetrators modus operandi (US) create total chaos in the region then justified the lawlessness within those countries with threats of, "National Security."
Thanks Juan Cole………….. Your embrace of this rape of Libya tells us what we need to know…. That there is NO vestige of sanity whatsoever within the establishment . That America is capable of anything, the more monsterous, the more likely…. That America's exceptionalism delusion is a cancer…
Is Libya looking more like Detroit after our intervention…… or does it resemble a place where people's minds are healthy…….. Maybe Libya can use Detroits casino strategy to enhance it's quality of life…..
Thanks Juan Cole………….. Your embrace of this rape of Libya tells us what we need to know…. That there is NO vestige of sanity whatsoever within the establishment . That America is capable of anything, the more monsterous, the more likely…. That America's exceptionalism delusion is a cancer…
Is Libya looking more like your Detroit after our intervention…… or does it resemble a place where people's minds are healthy…….. Maybe Libya can use Detroits casino strategy to enhance it's quality of life…..
Yawn…
Sounds like it's urgent that we give the Death, Deficit, and Destruction Mafia, LLC, some more trillions so they can protect our foreign policy.
If that's a 'mysterious crash,' maybe little Erkel would like to account for the crash that killed Beverly Eckert.
The ONLY threat to U.S. foreign policy IS U.S. foreign policy!
I wonder what the tribunal at Nuremberg would think of going to war because it was a "threat to your foreign policy". Let's see, definitely Stalin's policies were a threat to Germany's foreign policy, so what was the issue at Nuremberg with the Germans? Oops, I forgot … "anyone who is not for U.S. is against U.S." … a.k.a. GWB's foreign policy accentuated in spades by GW Obama.