Monday, April 8, 2019

Opuscula

Libyan turmoil
After Obama’s
“Arab Spring”



U.S. TROOPS AND INDIAN POLICE ARE being pulled out of Libya due to a conflict ignited by Obama’s “Arab Spring” that caused the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

According to the Associated Press (AP), The United States has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to “security conditions on the ground,” a top military official said Sunday as a Libyan commander’s forces advanced toward the capital of Tripoli and clashed with rival militias.
(See http://tinyurl.com/yxlol456)

Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator accepted responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland. The bomb was placed in a portable radio carried by a female passenger; the radio was a gift from her Muslim lover. (See http://tinyurl.com/njgh7w2 )

Also under Obama’s watch, with Hillary Clinton in charge of the State Department, the U.S. mission in Benghazi was attacked; US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other US nationals are killed in the attack.(See http://tinyurl.com/y5oz6rej )
Right: Obama and Hillary

In the end, what did Obama’s “Arab Spring” accomplish?

Gadhafi was deposed (murdered).

Bashar Hafez al-Assad still controls Syria.

Saudi Arabia still is controlled with an iron hand by the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud.

Iran still is controlled by the mullahs.

Iraq is controlled by Iran.

Lebanon is under the Syrian/Iranian thumb.

Jordan’s king is still on the throne, albeit shakily as the Palestinians want to replace him with what? Islamic Brotherhood? ISIS?

Egypt still is controlled by the Army, as is Algeria.

Yemen is engaged in an on-going civil war, as is Sudan, and Uganda.

Turkey is on a short fuse to a powder keg.

In “Palestine,” Abu Mazen continues to rule, although Hamas usurped his power in Gaza.

Only Morocco was and remains a stable government under the Alaouite dynasty.

Bottom line: A few Muslim dictators were removed and, in most cases, replaced not by democratic governments intent on peace and their countries’ welfare, but on corruption and violence.

Where Obama’s followers were prevented from overthrowing governments, the countries remain, for the most part, stable.

Israel’s government, in the middle of all this, remains stable and democratic (lower case “d”). Although American presidents have a (continuing) history of interfering in Israeli elections, the country still maintains its democracy.

Did Obama’s “Arab Spring” win any friends for the U.S.?

If it did, will someone please tell me who likes the U.S. in the Muslim world.

It did cost the lives of four Americans (in Benghazi).


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