Nancy A. Youssef, Daily Beast: Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It by Ear,’ Gates Says
She still defends the invasion as ‘smart power at its best.’ But war backers like Clinton had no plan for securing the country, says ex-Pentagon chief Bob Gates.
When Hillary Clinton appears before Congress’s special committee on Benghazi Thursday, she’ll likely be asked all the wrong questions.
Clinton will be peppered with queries about why she kept a private email server, what caused the 2012 attacks on the U.S. special consulate in Benghazi, and how come U.S. forces didn’t respond more quickly to the strikes. But the really important issues—the questions longstanding followers of the U.S. and NATO intervention want answered—are: Why did Hillary Clinton push for strikes that contributed to the fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi? And why didn’t the Obama administration bother to plan for the all-too-predictable chaos that came next?
WNU Editor: There was no post-war plan on what to do with Afghanistan after the Taliban was defeated .... so we decided to stay and try nation building. There was no post-war plan on what to do with Iraq after Saddam Hussein was overthrown .... so we decided to stay and try nation building. There was no post-war plan on what to do with Libya after Gadaffi was overthrown, .... so we decided to not stay and to not try nation building. It seems we have a problem on handling nations after the completion of a war.