Hillary Clinton, Smart Power and a Dictators Fall ( New York Times) today

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/u...ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

1.President Obama was deeply wary of another military venture in a Muslim country.
Most of his senior advisers were telling him to stay out.

2.Her conviction would be critical in persuading Mr. Obama to join allies in bombing Colonel Qaddafi’s forces. In fact, Mr. Obama’s defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, would later say that in a “51-49” decision, it was Mrs. Clinton’s support that put the ambivalent president over the line.
The consequences would be more far-reaching than anyone imagined, leaving Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven, a place where the direst answers to Mrs. Clinton’s questions have come to pass.

This is the story of how a woman whose Senate vote for the Iraq war may have doomed her first presidential campaign nonetheless doubled down and pushed for military action in another Muslim country

3.Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has seized on her role in the larger narrative of the Libyan intervention; during a recent debate, he said he feared that “Secretary Clinton is too much into regime change.”

4.In recent years, the Libyan dictator had begun aiding the United States in its fight against Al Qaeda in North Africa.
^money quote we threw that all away

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