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Karmadillo

(9,253 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 03:44 PM Apr 2016

Hillary's Libya Nightmare Spreads: Tunisia's Fragile Democracy Faces A Threat From Chaotic Libya

More foreign policy experience to add to the resume.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/30/472406949/tunisias-fragile-democracy-faces-a-threat-from-chaotic-libya

Tunisia's Fragile Democracy Faces A Threat From Chaotic Libya
March 30, 2016 11:45 AM ET
Heard on All Things Considered

Ben Guerdane is a dusty town in Tunisia's south, just 20 miles from the border with Libya, a roiling nation of militias and guns galore. It's a smuggling town, and it depends on the nearly 300-mile border with Libya to survive.

In more normal times, it's everyday products that get smuggled, but these days something more nefarious is coming across that border — weapons and militants.

The spillover from the conflict in Libya is setting off alarm bells in Tunisia, threatening a fragile democracy in the one place that emerged from the 2011 Arab revolts as a bright spot.

Meanwhile, Libya is a nation in chaos with three battling governments, a plethora of militias and a security vacuum being filled by a growing presence of the Islamic State extremist group on Tunisia's border. And even more ominously, many of those Islamic State fighters now in Libya are actually from Tunisia.

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Hillary's Libya Nightmare Spreads: Tunisia's Fragile Democracy Faces A Threat From Chaotic Libya (Original Post) Karmadillo Apr 2016 OP
I'm sure it's Bernie's fault... Yurovsky Apr 2016 #1
But let's talk about Popegate Avalon Sparks Apr 2016 #2
"conflict in Libya?" farleftlib Apr 2016 #3
How tragic. Yes she is to blame. Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #4
 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
3. "conflict in Libya?"
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:59 PM
Apr 2016


Hillary bombed that country back into the stone age because......reasons. There was nothing going on there except that Gaddafi wanted to sell Libya's oil in gold-backed dinars instead of dollars.
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