US plays a game against itself

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The CIA has taken the decision to publish a detailed report about the attack on the US consulate in Libya on September 11. As a result of this attack, 4 US citizens, including the US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed.
The killing of these people, tragic as it is, is not the only problem that this act has created for the US administration. Recently, a meeting of the US Congress was devoted to investigating the reasons why this attack was possible. During this meeting, Republicans accused the State Department that, allegedly, although US diplomats in Libya had asked several times for more guards to strengthen security because Libyan Islamists had become more active, each time, their requests were ignored. It has also become known that Gene Cretz, once the US Ambassador in Libya (now, he works in Ghana), had also sent telegrams to his superiors, in which he said that the US consulate in Libya was not guarded well enough.

The mother of one of the US citizens who was killed during this attack has accused Mitt Romney that he is using the deaths of her son and his comrades as a pretext to accuse the Obama administration and, thus, win some points for himself – which is probably true. However, Mr. Romney and his associates are continuing to find faults with the current US administration, as if the Republicans may automatically become the good guys because of the Democrats are the bad ones. One of the “trump cards” of the Republicans in their accusations against the incumbent administration is the indecent role of the CIA in Libya.

A recent publication in the Wall Street Journal claims that out of the total of the 30 workers in the US consulate in Libya, only 7 were really diplomats. The others, allegedly, were CIA agents who were engaged mainly in finding out where the weapons arsenals, which remained from the Gaddafi regime, were located.

It is now evident practically to everybody that by supporting the Libyan “revolutionaries”, the US, in fact, played a bad trick on itself. After the ousting of Gaddafi, Islamism immediately raised its ugly head in Libya. It has become known that the people who attacked the US consulate in Libya were members of an Islamist organization.

However, the US authorities do not seem to have drawn any conclusions from their former mistakes. The US still continues to support a number of dubious political forces in the Middle East and Northern Africa – in some countries, incumbent regimes, and in some, opposition movements. It is high time for US politicians to realize that by supporting them, they may be playing a game against themselves.