Burned Out Aircraft at Tripoli Airport –Images: Intl Business Times
Bullet Holes Riddle Baggage Claim Area at Tripoli Airport
(FOX News) The U.S. has finally decided to shut down its embassy in Tripoli, Libya, evacuating dozens of diplomats to neighboring Tunisia under U.S. military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli, as fighting intensified between rival militias.
What took them so long?
In 2011 The Washington Post reported the Obama Administration announced the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, holding up Libya “as a model for a kind of American leadership that relies on partnership and persistence” claiming that this provides a ‘partial vindication’ of Obama’s politically difficult decision to open a third military front in an Islamic country.
Riiight…
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