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This is a serialisation by The NewYork Times.
‘‘The president was wary. The secretary
of state was persuasive. But the ouster
of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi left Libya
a failed state and a terrorist haven.’’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/libya-isis-hillary-clinton.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/28/us/politics/libya-quotes.html
‘’
We, the U.S., did not have a particularly good handle on what was going on inside Libya,” said Derek Chollet, a State Department aide who moved to the National Security Council as the Libya debate began. American officials were relying largely on news reports, he said.
Human Rights Watch would later count about 350 protesters killed before the intervention — not the thousands described in some media accounts.‘’
And all along, she was thinking of using Libya as a stepping stone to presidency. But she cannot do it now because everything has gone south in Libya.
‘’
Mrs. Clinton’s old friend and political adviser, Sidney Blumenthal, who regularly emailed her political advice and vaguely sourced intelligence reports on Libya, urged her to capitalize on the dictator’s fall.
“Brava!” Mr. Blumenthal exclaimed. As always, he was thinking about Mrs. Clinton’s presidential ambitions. “You must go on camera. You must establish yourself in the historical record at this moment.” She should be sure to use the phrase “successful strategy,” he wrote. “You are vindicated’‘.’’
