WASHINGTON — President Trump’s wariness over bombing Iran is due in part to concerns about creating “another Libya” if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is toppled, administration insiders told The Post — as Trump shelves his decision
for up to two weeks.
The president in recent days has specifically mentioned the oil-rich North African country’s decade-long plunge into anarchy in 2011 — after the US joined a NATO bombing campaign to oust dictator Muammar Gaddafi — three sources close to the administration said.
Trump “doesn’t want it to turn into Libya,” said one insider familiar with the administration’s deliberations on potentially joining Israel’s airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
On Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the president was also biding his time before deciding whether to join Israel’s strikes “based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future.”
The president in recent days has specifically mentioned the oil-rich North African country’s decade-long plunge into anarchy in 2011 — after the US joined a NATO bombing campaign to oust dict…
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BJ -
President Trump clearly doesn't want to repeat the Hilliary Clinton disaster.
The difference is that Libya was not a nation of Twelvers.