Do you want to comment . I agree with you. That is also very important. The testimony the three of you have provided, which i appreciate. Again, people can play politics with a tragedy all they want. The fact of the matter is, at the time of the tragedy and even this day, libya is a very unstable situation postrevolution. The object is to do the best we can to try to change that dynamic to create a more stable government that provide security not only for us but also for its own people. A fair statement . Absolutely. As i mentioned, since 2013, the u. S. Has been planning in helping the Libyan Government with forces. Our diplomats were involved with reaching out to civil society. Its a tough challenge. Realize a lot of this is on the libyan shoulders. This country needs to reach a broad, political reconciliation among its faction before they can be in in a position to receive outside help. When i talk to people in the state department, there is a sense where there is a lack of partners
His own people. President obama explained to the worldwide United States was trying to remove gaddafi. He said the world watches events unfold in libya with hope and alarm. Protests demanded universal rights. In a government that responds to them. They were met with an eye and. Gaddafi chose to pass a brutal suppressant. Innocent civilians were beaten, imprisoned, and in some cases killed. Obamasmccain supported visit. He said if he had not acted, history would have remembered qadhafi in the same breath as former yugoslavia. A source of international shame. In an oped in april 2011, senator mccain wrote this, the president was gaddafi finally met his ugly demise. He was an extremely dangerous tyrant. He supported international ,errorism during the 1980s including a bombing which claimed the lives of 270 innocent civilians. Pursuedreportedly chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons. After gaddafi was killed, the new Libyan Government reportedly uncovered two tons of chemical weapons ga
I was told even before this if we had an incident, we could go in and rescue or resolve a situation. Do you believe we have that capability . If capabilities were in hand, then they could be employed. Thank you. Welcome to our panel. Let me pick up on that. You were not in the operational chain of command at the time of the tragedy . Not in the chain of command. I was serving in a staff role at that point in time. You are not making decisions. That is correct. I do not know if youre familiar with the fact the Service Committee on february 10 i want to quote from it and see what part of this you disagree with. My friend from florida suggests we could have done something from italy. Secretary peten secretary panetta, in consultation with general ham, general dempsey, and others, verbally authorized three specific actions. First, two murray and fast the tunes were ordered to prepare and deploy. Second, a special Operations Unit known as commanders cif, was ordered to move to a nato air st
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] up, coming up there is a lot more disconnection, a lot more families that are broken that should not be broken. The familiesbout that just cannot hold because of the stress of life, not holding a job, going from one job to ,nother, living in that world that workingclass upanddown onld, puts a lot of strain people. Even though they are so addictions are so rapid now because it is easy to get drugs and alcohol. I think all of this is contributing to my story being more of the american story than a lot of people are willing to admit. A former gang member, committee activist, and politically political driguez, willis ro take your calls today. House Speaker John Boehner has announced a special committee to investigate the attack on the u. S. Consulate in libya. A subpoena to john kerry to testify on the matter before the House Oversight committee. Next, we will hear from an air d
In terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u. S. Troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. It was a dramatic dramatic conflict. To my second point, the media Lessons Learned after this conflict, its odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. We saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic Structure International of domestic law internationally. We saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. Something, they could just outlaw. Within the United States, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u. S. Army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and threemonth the universal training system, and congress and the American People said no. Rather, not just meltdown, we tore do