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Will Libya Be America's Next Quagmire in the Middle East?
President Obama says chaos in Libya is one of his major foreign-policy failures — with three rival governments all beset by the forces of ISIS. But the President's not giving up on trying to establish some kind of order, and US Special Op Forces could be sent there “ any day .”
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPresident Obama says chaos in Libya is one of his major foreign-policy failures — with three rival governments all beset by the forces of ISIS. But the President's not giving up on trying to establish some kind of order, and US Special Op Forces could be sent there “any day.” Critics say it's a strategy that hasn't succeeded before, and warn about making things worse — with American lives on the line. We hear about possible options and what it's like on the ground.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Sáša Woodruff
Producer, 'To the Point'
Letta Tayler
Human Rights Watch
Andrew Bacevich
President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and professor emeritus, Boston University.
Paul Scharre
Center for a New American Security
The full episode
2 of 3Libya, the Next Stop for US Special Operations- 1:54Are Baggage Fees to Blame for the Long TSA Lines?
- 8:53Will Libya Be America's Next Quagmire in the Middle East?You’re reading this
- 43:17Kosovo, from a Budding Democracy to a Hotbed of Extremism