The turmoil in Libya that led to the killing of the U.S. Ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and three U.S. embassy employees, has been followed of course by statements from many politicians. Incidents such as these serve to produce fodder for the ruling class in their thirst for publicity. This in turn leads to a propaganda circus.
The U.S. had recently staged a coup in Libya, by supplying weapons, training, money, and troops, to forcibly remove the official ruler Muammar Gaddafi. In fact, he was murdered, and Hillary Clinton’s public comment (boast) about that murder was:
“We came, we saw, he died!”
She said this while laughing almost uncontrollably. Why is it any surprise to anyone that the U.S. is hated in parts of the Middle East?
The Romney campaign immediately came forward and linked the embassy killings to a failed Middle East policy by Obama. I could not agree more, but then all U.S. policies in the Middle East have been and are based on force and aggression, and therefore will always fail; this regardless of which administration is in “power.” The same could have been said of most any president as far back as Eisenhower.
Stevens certainly worked to help overthrow Gadaffi, and to help install more radical Islamicists. And as Lew Rockwell said today, the “Libyan outpost would have been safe under Gadaffi.” The irony here is heavy!