REUTERS/Brian SnyderA moderator for the ABC News Democratic debate on Saturday night confronted presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton over how much responsibility she should bear for the chaos the followed the ousting of former leader Muammar Qaddafi.
Martha Raddatz noted that Libya is “falling apart” and that Clinton recommended US intervention in 2011 during the Arab Spring after Qaddafi’s regime used violence against peaceful protestors.
The US then participated in airstrikes in Libya and Qaddafi was killed that year. Now, a power vacuum in the country has allowed extremism to fester.
The New York Times reported last month that the terrorist group ISIS (also …read more
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