Covering Up Hillary’s Libyan Fiasco
Consortium News
Exclusive: Despite Libya’s bloodshed and chaos,
ex-Secretary of State Clinton still defends her key role in the
2011 “regime change,” but her reasons don’t withstand scrutiny, as
Jonathan Marshall explains.
By Jonathan Marshall
Years after the end of the Vietnam War, as memories of its horrors and folly dimmed, conservative “revisionists”
emerged to peddle the myth that U.S. commitment there was both
justified and “winnable.” By obfuscating the historical record, they
sought to undo the painful lessons learned by a generation of Americans
about the perils of intervention and the costs of government lying.
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