Three Years After ‘Liberating’ Libya, U.S. Shuts Down Embassy

In 2011, the United States went to war against Muammar Qadhafi’s regime in Libya, supposedly in defense of the Libyan people.

President Barack Obama justified the attack by stating,

We knew that if we wanted—if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973. We struck regime forces approaching Benghazi to save that city and the people within it.

For seven months the United States led a bombing campaign that smashed Qadhafi’s forces. This bombardment raining down from above allowed the rebel forces on the ground—radical Islamists—to go on the offensive. They rounded up Qadhafi loyalists, including many civilians, conducted mass beatings and killings and publicly executed Colonel Qadhafi in a grisly way.

But instead of pausing to reassess its strategic alliance with these so-called liberators of Libya, the United States turned a blind eye to these atrocities.

Libya was now on the road to full democracy, the White House administration celebrated at the time. President Obama said that the people in the “new and democratic Libya” now had a chance to determine their own destiny.

But at the same time, editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned of a different destiny:

Now America and the West have paved the way for another Iranian victory in Libya. We are rejoicing about the overthrow of Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi, while we should be mourning. Libyan chaos is now the ideal setting for Iran to bring that nation into its deadly terrorist web. The government that replaces Qadhafi will be a thousand times worse.

Today, the violence and bloodshed in Libya is so bad that Americans are fleeing the country. Yesterday, the United States decided to shut down its embassy in Tripoli.

Read Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy and watch “Benghazi Terrorist Attack Fulfills Prophecy” for more about this disastrous turn of events in Libya.