I am not historian but was in Libya at that time:Yes Gaddafi would have survived even w/o Obama: his army surrounded Misrata & was close to Benghazi when coalition destroyed all his deployed units & barracks. He knew local tribal dynamics more than anyonehttps://twitter.com/jricole/status/1020677585976680448 …
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Elijah J. Magnier Retweeted Juan Cole
Syria was not observing a "true revolution":
#ISIS dispatched 1st group to Syria in 2011. Saudi, Qatar & US were all in, involved to support Sunni jihadists and not "revolution". Saudi are not revolutionary but Wahhabi Salafist promoting their doctrine.https://twitter.com/jricole/status/1020698831531511809 …Elijah J. Magnier added,
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Replying to @ejmalrai
This guy considers himself an historian. Yet he does not seem to know the most basic events taking place. regurgitates mostly imperial propaganda and how the US is doing wrong and how to fix it so there is Love thy imperialist.
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they don't call him "Langley Cole" for nothing-- http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/08/cole-a16.html …https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/30/meet-professor-juan-cole-consultant-to-the-cia/ …
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