Libya is a failed state and becoming a launching pad for external operations, as is Sinai in Egypt.
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We pulled out of Libya. Now look what's happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
We have a failed state in Syria.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.
Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.
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