04.08.2016 - 17:07 [ The Hill ]

Congress asleep at the wheel on US operations in Libya

Americans woke up on Monday, Aug. 1, to news that the U.S. military had expanded operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to a fourth front — this time in Libya, a nation that continues to be riven by multiple governments claiming legitimacy, wide-open borders, a struggling economy and a country hosting an alphabet soup of jihadist groups… Instead, the country was afforded a quick 159-word press statement from the Pentagon announcing that the United States is now opening up yet another front in the never-ending war on terrorism.