Even considering that no one is fit to be president
— in that no one should be able to command a state, which rules by threatening
and committing violence against innocents — Hillary Clinton is
especially unfit. No one who has done what she has done as a government
official should be rewarded with power.

Many things in her career could impose this special
disqualification. Her vote for George W. Bush’s criminal and lie-based Iraq
war, for example, would be more than enough to rule her out. That political
ambition now prompts her to express regret for her vote should count for
nothing, especially in light of what is to be discussed below. When she says
she learned her lesson, she lies.

Likewise, her declaration of open-season on Syrian
President Assad gave a boost to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliates.

But if no other horrors were on her record, one
should be enough to bar her from office: Libya. It would be hard to find a
better example of how one person can wreak havoc on a society and create
far-ranging horrors beyond.

In 2011 the U.S. government led a NATO air assault
on Libya under doubly false pretenses. Falsehood number 1 was that Libyan ruler
Muammar Gaddafi was threatening to wipe out hundreds of thousands of residents
of Benghazi. As was noted at the time, including by the Defense Intelligence
Agency, there was no evidence for this claim and much reason to disbelieve it.
Falsehood number 2 was related to the first: NATO’s real mission was not to
protect the civilians, but to help the rebel opposition overthrow Gaddafi’s
government, after which he was murdered extra-judicially by rebels.

The result of the Libya intervention is well-known.
The country is in chaos, with al-Qaeda- and ISIS-affiliated guerrillas running
wild. With U.S. oversight, heavy arms from Gaddafi’s arsenal flowed freely to
rebels in Syria who either were bin Ladenites or alleged “moderates” eager to
sell the arms to ISIS. Clinton brags that the intervention is a good
example of “smart power,” which speaks volumes about her.

The U.S. military and Secretary of War Robert Gates
did not want to intervene in Libya. But then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators Susan Rice and
Samantha Power did, and Barack Obama sided with them. Even after the
intervention was underway, it would have been possible to limit the damage, but
it was not to be. As investigative journalist Gareth Porter explains:

“The JCS warned that overthrowing the Gaddafi
regime would serve no US security interest, but would instead open the way for
forces aligned with al-Qaeda to take over the country. After the Obama administration
went ahead with a NATO air assault against the Gaddafi regime the US military
sought to head off the destruction of the entire Libyan government. General
Carter Ham, the commander of AFRICOM, the US regional command for Africa gave
the State Department a proposal for a ceasefire to which Gaddafi had agreed. It
would have resulted in Gaddafi’s resignation but retain the Libyan military’s
capacity to hold off jihadist forces and rescind the sanctions against
Gaddafi’s family.

“But the State Department refused any negotiation
with Gaddafi on the proposal. Immediately after hearing that Gaddafi had been
captured by rebel forces and killed,Clinton famously joked in a television
interview, ‘We came, we saw, he died’ and laughed.”

Did Hillary Clinton, who admires Henry
Kissinger, honestly believe her intervention was a humanitarian mission? Not
bloody likely. How do we know? Her own emails tell us so. In the
latest Clinton email dump, Brad Hoff of Levant Report found “truly
explosive confirmations…: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers
inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, al Qaeda embedded in the U.S.
backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the
nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over
Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.”

The intervention, which brought incalculable death
and mayhem to Libya, Syria, and Mali, was no innocent blunder, and it
discredits Hillary Clinton’s claim that she learned the lesson of
Iraq.

No one is fit to exercise power, but Hillary Clinton is
the least fit of all.