ba$eman posted:RiffRaff posted:"This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes because it's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin."
It was Hillary who voted for Iraq, led the charge against Libya, handed us Benghazi, prefers to see the slaughter in Syria continue till Assad falls and wanted us to get more direct in Ukr!!
Hillary tries to come across calm, but she lacks judgement! She thinks, analyses, contemplates then comes to the wrong conclusions!
ba$e......the Libyan mission you speak of (led the charge against Libya) was to prevent the imminent slaughter/genocide. Let me remind you of the run up to that decision for the air campaign against the Libyan forces.
After its people rose up in 2011 following the uprisings of the Arab Spring in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, Qaddafi began attacking his own civilians. The US President, sensing the danger to Americans in Libya ordered non-essential personnel out of Libya and there was a travel advisory. He froze over $33 billion of Libyan sovereign financial assets. The UN employed sanctions. Obama called for him to step down.
Qaddafi's response was to double down on attacks on his people. You may remember reports of hospitals being attacked by Qaddafi's forces and the City of Misurata had its water supply shut down to strangle a huge city.
The Europeans and the other Arab countries called on the US to lead a coalition to stop Qaddafi's onslaught on his people. In that coalition's effort the US supplied the smart power - intel and refueling - and the Europeans and Arabs the air power. Even with this Qaddafi geared up to annihilate Benghazi. With impending genocide of a city of just under a million people Obama got the US involved more forcefully by taking out Qaddafi's airforce and stopped the advancing troops on Benghazi. The US was doing its traditional role - stop genocide as in Serbia, Rwanda, the mountains where the Yazidis were threatened by ISIS.
After all this Qaddafi was still in power and you will recall that it was his own people who snagged him after he fled to Sirte and was plotting against the Transitional government. After he was killed the US led the efforts to finance Libya's recovery with Hillary in charge.
The US ambassador took it upon himself to fly from the safe confines of Tripoli to Benghazi - a consulate to the opposite end of the country with less protection. The Benghazi hearings were relentless by Republicans and exactly what are you saying about Hillary handing us Benghazi? Speak clearly, concisely and factually so I can respond or forever hold your tongue.