On the recordDecember 19, 2012
This past September 11, four Americans, including our Ambassador, were killed in Benghazi. The responsibility for security failures has now been placed on the State Department. End of story? No. The deeper question is why did the U.S. intervene in Libya in the first place. Twenty months after a U.S.-led mission to overthrow the Libyan Government, militias are still battling in the streets for control; al Qaeda-linked groups have a foothold in Libya they did not have before U.S. intervention. Why did we spend U.S. tax dollars to open the door for al Qaeda in Libya? The intervention itself was a disaster, and it makes the case that the U.S. Government's policy of intervention in Libya was wrong and that everything that proceeds from that intervention is bound to be tainted. The book of Ecclesiastes says: That which is crooked cannot be made straight. Nothing will ever be made straight about U.S. intervention in Libya. ____________________
