Let’s see. The last time the U.S. armed Libyans, the arms fell into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. Will it be any different this time? Why, no.
“U.S. backs arming new Libyan government to fight Islamic State,” by W.J. Hennigan and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2016:
The U.S. government and other world powers are prepared to help train and arm forces from the new unity government in Libya to help it fight Islamic State, which has spread rapidly in the turbulent North African nation.
Speaking in Vienna, Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and other major nations would back the Libyan government’s attempt to win an exemption from a United Nations arms embargo.
Kerry said it was “imperative” for the international community to support the 6-week-old government in Tripoli, which he called “the only legitimate one in Libya and which must now start to work.”
The fledgling government, which arrived by boat from neighboring Tunisia on March 31, “is the only entity that can unify the country,” Kerry said. “It is the only way to generate the cohesion necessary to defeat” Islamic State.
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj, who appeared with Kerry, said he welcomed the support.
“We’re not talking about international intervention,” he said. “We’re talking about international assistance and training, equipping our troops and training our youth.”…

JawsV says
Apparently, the West never gets it about Islam.
Myxlplik says
Yeah I know, unless you like genocide and piles of dead bodies, I don’t know how giving Muslims weapons is ever a good idea.
Custos Custodum says
Barry and Kerry DO “get it about Islam,” at least in outline (in the case of Kerry).
Barry, of course, was a proficient madrassah student in Indonesia where he memorized prayer chants. To Barry, excelling at the madrassah gave him a much-needed sense of belonging to a larger community (the Muslim ummah) despite his obviously alien ethnic background. Kerry, for his part, will do anything his master orders just so he can maintain his unearned lifestyle.
Barry’s and Kerry’s actions and statements over the past few years make sense ONLY on the assumption that both positively WANT to foster the Islamic ascendancy, WANT to maximize structural harm to the United States and the West, and undermine traditional notions of fairness, laws and the U.S. Constitution.
Eu says
Muslims are brothers , prefer a “radical Muslim” than a kafir . These weapons eventually end up being used against Western people .
linnte says
This is beyond ridiculous! It’s the definition of insanity! Our Government is insane.
Sam says
YES!!!!!
Angemon says
I guess the cure for hitting yourself in the head with a hammer is to hit yourself in the head with a different hammer. Sure, you’re still hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, but not with *that one* hammer…
gravenimage says
I think, actually, that it is the same hammer in this case…
Carolyne says
And with both hammers, Kerry and Clinton say, “Ooooh, that feels so good.”
WorkingClassPost says
What I don’t get is that they have no trouble locating moderate muslims in Libya and Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and supplying them with weapons.
So why is it so hard to find moderate muslims in the West?
I mean moderate, as in standing against murder, rape etc.
Keys says
Article: “The fledgling government, which arrived by boat from neighboring Tunisia on March 31, “is the only entity that can unify the country,” Kerry said. “It is the only way to generate the cohesion necessary to defeat” Islamic State.”
#1 How big was this boat? Had the whole Libyan government on board? OK, was this one of the refugee boats originally heading to Europe (Hey, you guys, you wanna take a shot at running Libya)?
#2 Who are these guys (an “entity” like a reincarnation), and why are they coming from Tunisia?
#3 What is the plan? Why are they the “only” ones that can “unify” and “generate the cohesion” ? They have lots of bribe money?
#4 What are the odds that this “entity” will be able to clean up this administration’s mess in Arab Spring Libya? Are they the Avengers?
gravenimage says
I’d ask those question, but I don’t even care at this point–this is so obviously fantasy-based “policy”.
Charli Main says
Sounds like a plan !!!! Arm and train Muslims with the latest weapons and combat techniques . Then most of them will probably jump on to every floating plank of wood they can find, paddle out into the Med and wait to be picked up by assorted EU navies and brought into Europe. After Pope Francis has washed their feet they can continue the Jihad their brothers have already started in Europe.
Myxlplik says
I was laughing out loud at this, because I could just see them in some room somewhere hatching this plan and not getting any new ideas, then someone says, “Hey let’s give them (Muslims) some more weapons” that’ll fix all of our problems, “because the massive stockpile of weapons we knew about all got stolen by Jihadists.”
Clearly the problem is that we can’t give the good Muslims weapons faster than local Jihadists can steal them, so logically the part we can control is the rate at which we supply weapoms. I totally get it, we just need to overwhelm the Jihadists on the supply side, so there are weapons left for the good Muslims. F-ing brilliant.
Custos Custodum says
Precisely: “Obama and his foolish followers …,” NOT “Foolish Obama and his followers.”
In fact, some of Obama’s hard-core followers are far from being naifs about Islam but hope that they will be able to benefit from having opened the city gates to our would-be overlords.
Carolyne says
In fact, the de facto President, Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran.
Sam says
Nuts!!!!!!
Sam says
No. There are millions and millions Americans who are brained washed in hating America. John Kerry is a symptom of (unfortunately) current American culture.
mortimer says
I truly wish Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj the best. I hope his government can succeed against all odds.
Arab countries’ first priority must be stability, then democracy, pluralism and freedom of expression.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
Arab countries’ first priority must be stability, then democracy, pluralism and freedom of expression.
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Who says? Certainly, no Muslim country in the history of the world has ever had such priorities.
These are the goals of civilized Infidels–not of Islam.
And the fact is that almost no one in Libya accepts this “government”, in any case. Right now there are at least three “governments” in Libya. Expect more internecine bloodshed–especially now that the arms embargo has been prematurely lifted.
Myxlplik says
Yeah, it’s like wishing a snowball luck in Hell.
David, Thailand says
It’s not Obama, Clinton and/or Kerry that America needs to fear, but those that want them in power.
linnte says
BOOM! exactly!
gravenimage says
Many people who voted for Obama were transfixed by the whole “hope and change” thing. Many of them have no idea about Islam at all.
linnte says
Graven, I was one of those people! I wept when he got into office, WITH JOY! Then the real Barack Hussein Obama started to show his true colors. Oh my goodness, what an idiot I was!
gravenimage says
U.S. backs arming new Libyan government to fight the Islamic State
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Our problem is that where we recognize there are bad guys, all too many of us also assume that that somehow means that there are good guys–or at least not-too-bad-guys–nearby ready to oppose them.
This is, of course, ridiculous. In most of Dar-al-Islam, it’s just bad guys and other bad guys. It’s not all that hard to figure out…
Westman says
How about announcing the time and place, then just drop a satchel with money from a helicopter and let the “rebel” groups scrum for it? Since it all gets distributed anyway and alliances change regularly, why not have some fun filming the game? It would go viral….
Rasmussen says
Yo , Kerry , shouldn’t you be in Vietnam with your boss ; wasn’t there some unfinished business
concerning american pow’s ?
ninetyninepct says
John Kerry – Hillary Clinton – two piles of the same shit.
common sense says
This is just replacing one Islamofacist group with another.
The first crusades were organized to repel “Muslim migration and to expel the *humiliation* of of those forced to live under Muslim rule”.
ARM THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS! BAN ISLAM AS PROVOCATION TO MURDER AND INCITING HATE AND UNEQUAL RIGHTS. Proof is there before our eyes.
Stephen says
How much you want to bet the “unifying government” is the islamic state and Kerry and Obama know it?
Mark A says
Can’t they just give them the armaments from the former Libyan government stockpiles?
Oh wait, those went to the anti-Ghaddafi freedom fighters who the US used to support but who now appear to be considered the “illegitimate” faction in Libya.
What could possibly go wrong with giving these people more weapons?
Manuele says
WHEN IS IT THAT THIS IDIOT LEARN?