{"id":23671,"date":"2014-08-27T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23671"},"modified":"2014-08-27T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:08:33","slug":"evidence-of-the-decline-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23671","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Of The Decline Of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, the Washington Post<\/a> reported that Egypt<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)<\/a> carried out a series of airstrikes in Tripoli, Libya<\/a>. Neither country informed the United States<\/a> before taking action.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The airstrikes appear tied to fear over the growing muscle of Islamist<\/a> militias. The region\u2019s monarchies and secular dictatorships are increasingly alarmed about Islamist gains from Libya<\/a> to Syria and Iraq. And the airstrikes may signal a new willingness by some Arab states to take on a more direct military role in the region\u2019s conflicts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Various groups in Libya have been battling for control of the main Tripoli airport<\/a>, and the strikes may have been a failed attempt to keep the strategic facility from falling to extremists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our intervention in Libya was a mistake. The only true justification for America’s getting involved was to protect the oil fields that supply Europe with oil. There is also some questions as to whether of not Gaddafi was planning to begin to trade oil in currency other than American dollars. If he had done that, it would have crashed the American economy. Gaddafi had turned over his weapons of mass destruction after the United States had invaded Iraq<\/a>. He was a horrible dictator, but there was no assurance that he would be replaced with anything less horrible. The Obama Administration’s decision to bomb Libya as part of the ‘Arab Spring’ only strengthened the grip of the multiple terrorist groups in Libya and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

President Obama’s<\/a> foreign policy in the Middle East<\/a> has been a disaster. It will take years to restore the faith in the United States that our allies once had and to undo the damage President Obama has done by supporting the enemies of democracy.<\/p>\n

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