Libya, the Next Stop for US Special Operations
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The US, NATO and the United Nations are focused on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, while ISIS commits familiar atrocities in Libya. US Special Forces may be sent in, but with three rival governments, there's hardly a formula for easy success.
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| 0:51.3 | President Obama says chaos in Libya is one of his major foreign policy failures |
| 0:55.9 | with three rival governments all beset by the forces of ISIS. But the president's not giving |
| 1:01.0 | up on trying to establish some kind of order and U.S. Special Op forces could be sent there any day. |
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