Slavery Today

For John, BLUF:  I blame the press.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.

Here is the sub-headline:

'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.

An Opinion Pice by Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds, in USA Today, 27 November 2017.

Here is how the article begins:

Black Africans are beingsold in open-air slave markets right now, and it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault. But you won’t hear much about that from the press or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain.

Footage from Libya, released last week by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets.

And how did we get to this point? As the BBC reported back in May, “Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Oct. 2011.”

And who was behind that overthrow? None other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Under former president George W. Bush in 2003, the United States negotiated an agreement with Libyan strongman Gadhafi. The deal: He would give up his weapons of mass destruction peacefully, and we wouldn’t try to depose him.

That seemed like a good deal at the time, but the Obama administration didn’t stick to it. Instead, in an operation spearheaded by Clinton, the United States went ahead and toppled him anyway.

Frankly, I hope Ms Clinton is frosted by this article.  She may not have foreseen this outcome—Black Africans being sold into slavery—but it was her job, or the job of the State Department Director of Policy Planning.  Sadly, Ms Anne-Marie Slaughter had left the office by January 2011 and it was up to Mr Jake Sullivan to speak truth to power.  He failed, but he is still Ms CLinton's foreign policy advisor to this day.

And African-Americans of all stripes should be outrage by this.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff