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At least this time they managed to get our diplomats out.
For the Obama administrations foreign policy, this weekends evacuation of our embassy in Tripoli marked a big improvement over from the last time Libyan terrorists ran rampant in the streets. Last time, on September 11, 2012 at Benghazi, the White House couldnt manage to protect Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who gave their lives in our names.
This time, the White House had more than enough time to plan months, in fact.
Washington stood by helplessly as warring Islamist militias wreaked havoc throughout Libya and gradually encircled Tripoli. The advance notice at least gave the White House plenty of time to organize our departure.
Obama administration planners orchestrated a retreat over land, from Tripoli to Tunisia. Our diplomats fled the country under cover of American fighter jets, surveillance planes and V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft.
It must have been quite a show of U.S. firepower. Too bad it came a few months late.
The evacuation of an American embassy anywhere in the world is an exclamation point that emphasizes failure to friends and foes alike, and Barack Obamas retreat from Tripoli is particularly troublesome.
Libya today is a burning island of chaos in a larger ocean of President Obamas foreign policy disarray that stretches from Tripoli to Cairo to Gaza to Damascus and beyond...
Read more: U.S. Flees The Libyan Bedlam We Created | The Daily Caller
For the Obama administrations foreign policy, this weekends evacuation of our embassy in Tripoli marked a big improvement over from the last time Libyan terrorists ran rampant in the streets. Last time, on September 11, 2012 at Benghazi, the White House couldnt manage to protect Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who gave their lives in our names.
This time, the White House had more than enough time to plan months, in fact.
Washington stood by helplessly as warring Islamist militias wreaked havoc throughout Libya and gradually encircled Tripoli. The advance notice at least gave the White House plenty of time to organize our departure.
Obama administration planners orchestrated a retreat over land, from Tripoli to Tunisia. Our diplomats fled the country under cover of American fighter jets, surveillance planes and V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft.
It must have been quite a show of U.S. firepower. Too bad it came a few months late.
The evacuation of an American embassy anywhere in the world is an exclamation point that emphasizes failure to friends and foes alike, and Barack Obamas retreat from Tripoli is particularly troublesome.
Libya today is a burning island of chaos in a larger ocean of President Obamas foreign policy disarray that stretches from Tripoli to Cairo to Gaza to Damascus and beyond...
Read more: U.S. Flees The Libyan Bedlam We Created | The Daily Caller