Aha! Just as I Thought

But there's more about which I had no inkling.

Justin Raimondo gives us background on who’s who in the Libyan rebel organization(s), and makes the case that indeed Younes was offed by Jalil. He traces the various factions back in time and place to the CIA, of course.

Indeed, since US aid is flowing to the rebels, we can say with certainty that the assassination of Younes was funded by the American taxpayers.

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However, whomever gets the Official Blame in the end isn’t what’s interesting: the real scoop is that our boy, Haftar – think Ahmed Chlabi, Libyan version – is aligned with the Islamists against the more secular elements, defectors like Younes and the Benghazi lawyers who make up the civilian leadership of the rebellion.

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It is as if a time machine has thrust us back in the Clinton years – and indeed these are the Clinton years, redux, at least in the foreign policy realm, as this is the policy area that has been ceded to the Clintons by a disengaged and generally hapless President Obama.

Why does this outrageous situation not surprise you?

Read the whole interesting post.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

PS...Raimondo also echoes my sentiments about Professor Juan Cole, a man I used to quote widely during the Iraq invasion, but who seems to have gone limp (for whatever reasons – fear or blind devotion to Persident #Compromise – or maybe both). It’s too bad. I used to think he was one of the few credible and respectable pundits we had.

During the Bush era, Prof. Cole was the go-to academic for trenchant analysis of why the neoconservative strategy for defeating terrorism – invading the Arab world – was disastrously misguided. Today he stands with the Obama administration and the neocons in their enthusiasm for the US/NATO-supported Libyan rebels, who are in no way different from Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress or any of the other CIA-backed exile groups, including Haftar’s outfit. Incredibly, Cole had nothing to say about the assassination of Younes other than that it wouldn’t mean beans in the long-run, as the rebels are headed for victory. If this brazen murder raised any questions in his mind as to the nature of the forces he’s aligned himself with, Cole has so far kept silent.