Monday, August 3, 2020

Why Is Benghazi Still Important ???

Here are some claims from Carlton Meyer, as published in AntiWar.com:

Chris Stevens was an ambitious US State Department employee who volunteered to participate in the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011. He covertly arrived in Libya in early 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship with CIA personnel and set up operations in Benghazi to coordinate illegal shipments of weaponry into Libya and organized attacks on the Libyan army. After Africa’s most prosperous nation was in ruins, Stevens became the US Ambassador to Libya in Tripoli and was given a new mission of shipping tons of arms to Syria to destroy that nation. He traveled to Benghazi in September 2012 to check on progress and was attacked. Stevens was captured, beaten, and killed. The Obama administration hid these facts and proclaimed Chris Stevens an American hero who had traveled to Benghazi to mediate peace among warring factions when he was killed by terrorists.

Source - https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/07/30/the-incident-at-benghazi-video/

I recently watched a 2016 miniseries called The Night Manager, starring Hugh Laurie of House M.D. fame. It's about an arms dealer (played by Laurie) and joint US/UK efforts to take down his network.

It occurred to me that since the US is by far the largest weapons dealer in the world and often destroys entire sovereign nations as part of its bloodthirsty arms trade, it is the height of hypocrisy to blame terrorism on people like the Laurie-portrayed character of the miniseries. We only "go after them" either because they're competition or because the weapons they sell go to people we don't like who might use them to escape US hegemony.

Do you want peace in the world? Then stop enabling people like Obama ad-Dajjal, Hillary Clinton, John Bolton, Chris Stevens, and others who seem to think the suffering of other peoples somehow promotes "democracy". It doesn't.

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