Sunday, March 18, 2018

Africans are being sold as slaves in Libya. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.

Africans are being sold as slaves in Libya. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.
Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week. USA TODAY

'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.

Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets,  and it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault. 
But you won’t hear much about that from the news media or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain.
Footage from Libya, released recently by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets.
And how did we get to this point? 
As the BBC reported back in May, “Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011.”
And who was behind that overthrow? 
None other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Under President George W. Bush in 2003, the United States negotiated an agreement with Libyan strongman Gadhafi
The deal: He would give up his weapons of mass destruction peacefully, and we wouldn’t try to depose him.
That seemed a good deal at the time, but the Obama administration didn’t stick to it. 
Instead, in an operation spearheaded by Clinton, the United States went ahead and toppled him anyway..."
Read on!

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