Expert Suggests to The Christian Post American-Led Toppling of Gaddafi Empowered Extremists
Prof. Alan J. Kuperman of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, shared that he was surprised by the attack in Libya, as the last time a U.S. ambassador was killed was in 1979, referring to the shooting of Adolph Dubs, who died during a kidnapping attempt in Afghanistan.
"What didn't surprise me now that there are radical Islamists in Libya who have a little bit more free reign before our intervention and in that regard, the U.S.-led NATO intervention that overthrew (Muammar) Gaddafi and put the rebels in power – that backfired a bit," Kuperman said in an interview with KTBC-TV, which he shared with The Christian Post.
"We had a country, Libya, that was our ally, we had a government there that was fighting against radical Islamists, and by helping overthrow the government there, what we did basically was help empower radical Islamists," the professor continued. Read more
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Whose to blame--the hornets or the kid who threw rocks at their nest--when a swarm of angry hornets sting one or more other kids? Radical Islamist groups may be exploiting the film to inflame anti-Western sentiments but those who produced the film provided them with a pretext. They share in the blame for the resulting violence.
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