2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's policies turned Libya into a terrorist hell hole [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)We can argue either position but there is no point in saying either event is definitive. It's not like ISIS put out a press release to the world at a certain juncture that it had now formed and the rest of the world had better watch out.
Objectively, you would need to admit the possibility that Iraq had more to do with it than Libya. I am more willing to do the same for Libya but I am not willing to assume one or the other. The Mideast has always been chaotic. The invasion of Iraq made it even more so. Maybe the decisions about Libya made it even worse but there is no disputing the fact that Qaddafi was threatening a bloodbath in response to the Arab Spring.
I don't know what a better solution might have looked like but I'm not going to blame Clinton for making the case for intervention to Obama.
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