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Benghazi failure caused Algeria hostage crisis and more to come
- Thread starter American_Jihad
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What leadership?Because conservatives won't try to undermine President Obama's leadership?
Ask President Romney.
Hey Red, didn't you hear Romney didn't make it and we got another four years of
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EriktheRed
Eh...
What leadership?
Ask President Romney.
Hey Red, didn't you hear Romney didn't make it and we got another four years of
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That empty chair's been eating the GOP's lunch so far.
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Libyas Unintended Consequences
ROSS DOUTHAT
Published: July 7, 2012
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In North Africa, though, matters arent quite so simple. When the United States intervened on behalf of Libyas rebels, skeptics worried that we could end up splitting the country in two, empowering Islamic radicals and creating a bigger humanitarian disaster than the one we hoped to forestall.
The worst-case situation has not come to pass in Libya itself. But thanks to the ripple effects from Colonel Qaddafis fall, its well on its way to happening in nearby Mali.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/libyas-unintended-consequences.html?_r=0
ROSS DOUTHAT
Published: July 7, 2012
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In North Africa, though, matters arent quite so simple. When the United States intervened on behalf of Libyas rebels, skeptics worried that we could end up splitting the country in two, empowering Islamic radicals and creating a bigger humanitarian disaster than the one we hoped to forestall.
The worst-case situation has not come to pass in Libya itself. But thanks to the ripple effects from Colonel Qaddafis fall, its well on its way to happening in nearby Mali.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/libyas-unintended-consequences.html?_r=0
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This theory breaks down on the notion that there was any kind of leadership from this President. The attempt to blame a hapless American citizen to for the sake of getting reelected shows that leadership is not a quality that this man posses.Then there's the alternate theory.
Obama's been decimating al Qaeda with drone strikes. And al Qaeda terrorists noticed that the attack on the Benghazi consulate ultimately led to Republicans turning on their own president and undermining his leadership. The terrorists figured that they could count on American conservatives to continue to turn on the leader of their own country which will ultimately help them in the process.
But I'll give you a D- for effort.
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Obama Refusing to Provide Support for Frances Fight Against Al Qaeda
January 22, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
Yes, I know theyre cheese-eating surrender monkeys, but in this case they have a point. Three things to consider.
1. Obama was one of the three players in the Libyan War which led to Mali. He is responsible for Al Qaeda overrunning Mali and has a clear responsibility to clean up the mess. The French bear more responsibility, and theyre doing more.
2. France is not asking Americans to fight. Theyre asking for refueling and other technical assistance that will not endanger Americans, and will cost money, but less money than Obama pisses away on funding unions in Brazil or rum factories in the Virgin Islands. And the cost of this is a lot lower than what it would cost us to send thousands of troops to Mali.
3. You might be tempted to go Rand Paul on this, but if Al Qaeda gains an entire country to play with, we are going to end up having to go in sooner or later. Terrorist groups dont just stay in place or expand horizontally and vertically, they score points with spectacular terrorist attacks against Western targets. Those attacks bring them cash from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.
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Obama Refusing to Provide Support for France?s Fight Against Al Qaeda
January 22, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
Yes, I know theyre cheese-eating surrender monkeys, but in this case they have a point. Three things to consider.
1. Obama was one of the three players in the Libyan War which led to Mali. He is responsible for Al Qaeda overrunning Mali and has a clear responsibility to clean up the mess. The French bear more responsibility, and theyre doing more.
2. France is not asking Americans to fight. Theyre asking for refueling and other technical assistance that will not endanger Americans, and will cost money, but less money than Obama pisses away on funding unions in Brazil or rum factories in the Virgin Islands. And the cost of this is a lot lower than what it would cost us to send thousands of troops to Mali.
3. You might be tempted to go Rand Paul on this, but if Al Qaeda gains an entire country to play with, we are going to end up having to go in sooner or later. Terrorist groups dont just stay in place or expand horizontally and vertically, they score points with spectacular terrorist attacks against Western targets. Those attacks bring them cash from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.
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Obama Refusing to Provide Support for France?s Fight Against Al Qaeda
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Some Algeria Attackers Are Placed at Benghazi
By ADAM NOSSITER
January 22, 2013
ALGIERS Several Egyptian members of the squad of militants that lay bloody siege to an Algerian gas complex last week also took part in the deadly attack on the United States Mission in Libya in September, a senior Algerian official said Tuesday.
The Egyptians involved in both attacks were killed by Algerian forces during the four-day ordeal that ended in the deaths of at least 38 hostages and 29 kidnappers, the official said. But three of the militants were captured alive, and one of them described the Egyptians role in both assaults under interrogation by the Algerian security services, the official said.
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Algerian officials says the militants who seized the gas field traveled through Niger and Libya, whose border is only some 30 miles from the plant at In Amenas. Mohamed-Lamine Bouchneb, the militant leading the attack at the site, had purchased arms for the assault in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the senior official said.
The kidnappers had also gathered, undisturbed, at the southern Libyan town of Ghat, just across the border from Algeria, he said, depicting Libya as anarchic, without an effective military force and an ideal staging ground for attacks like the one launched a week ago.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/w...e-placed-at-benghazi.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3&
By ADAM NOSSITER
January 22, 2013
ALGIERS Several Egyptian members of the squad of militants that lay bloody siege to an Algerian gas complex last week also took part in the deadly attack on the United States Mission in Libya in September, a senior Algerian official said Tuesday.
The Egyptians involved in both attacks were killed by Algerian forces during the four-day ordeal that ended in the deaths of at least 38 hostages and 29 kidnappers, the official said. But three of the militants were captured alive, and one of them described the Egyptians role in both assaults under interrogation by the Algerian security services, the official said.
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Algerian officials says the militants who seized the gas field traveled through Niger and Libya, whose border is only some 30 miles from the plant at In Amenas. Mohamed-Lamine Bouchneb, the militant leading the attack at the site, had purchased arms for the assault in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the senior official said.
The kidnappers had also gathered, undisturbed, at the southern Libyan town of Ghat, just across the border from Algeria, he said, depicting Libya as anarchic, without an effective military force and an ideal staging ground for attacks like the one launched a week ago.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/w...e-placed-at-benghazi.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3&
zonly1
Probie still throwin'em
The people who did it SAID it was in retaliation for the French in Mali you fucking fools
Hey Mr. Keyboard Expert, gotta love your ignorance and inconvenience in life when nukes are launching.
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They're cheese eating surrender monkeys only to ugly Anglo-Americans. IE ignorant provincial RW English and American conservative a-holes and their dupes.
And Mali is damn glad to have them kicking some Islamofascist butt...as were the Libyan rebels..
And Mali is damn glad to have them kicking some Islamofascist butt...as were the Libyan rebels..
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zonly1
Probie still throwin'em
What leadership?Because conservatives won't try to undermine President Obama's leadership?
Ask President Romney.
Mail must travel slow in your parts or does the elevator go to the top in your case?
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