Let's hope we get our people out of the Libyan Embassy faster than we got them out of Benghazi. We're also looking at evacuating other Americans in the Tripoli area as the stability there disintegrates. We have placed additional military assets in the immediate area and are prepared to move at a moment's notice, according to State Department sources.
We went in and liberated Libya from Gaddafi without Congressional approval as required by our Constitution and without any game plan as to what should happen in the country after the liberation was complete. We then immediately got our Embassy and Consulate open and pretended that everything was all sunshine with plenty of peanut butter and apple jelly for all of humanity. We ignored warnings that Al Qaeda was planning an attack at Benghazi; we fluffed off a couple of minor attacks against the Consulate; we scoffed at the British and others who closed up shop and left town and we simply continued to sit there, like ducks in a marsh on the opening season of hunting day.
Still we remain in Tripoli when other countries have already left. It appears that civil war is imminent and we really should have gotten out several weeks ago. It remains to be seen whether or not we're willing to fire upon any Libyans or Al Qaeda if we do evacuate, but I have my doubts. On the other hand, there is NO doubt about the fact that the White House and Obama in particular are to blame for a major part of the Libyan mess, simply because they had, and still have, no plan.
The scary part is that Obama might first have to ask Putin for permission to to anything, and Putin is not taking Obama's calls.
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