Ivan Eland

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

The United States Has Made Its Bed in Somalia and Libya

Posted: 10/09/2013 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/the-united-states-has-mad_b_4059062.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications

Most of the media coverage of the twin U.S. capture-or-kill missions in Libya and Somalia has been focused on the immediate "success" (in Libya) or "failure" (in Somalia) of the efforts. Far less attention has been focused on the dangerous backlash in both countries that could occur from the raids. And almost absent from the public discussion is how these two countries became a breeding ground for potentially anti-American terrorists.