{"id":35277,"date":"2020-05-30T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35277"},"modified":"2020-05-30T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T16:45:37","slug":"the-destruction-of-libya-in-2011-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/the-destruction-of-libya-in-2011-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destruction of Libya in 2011 (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American empire wanted to oust Muammar Gaddafi for decades. He remained in power as he carefully balanced interests in Libya\u2019s complex tribal society and kept the military under control. Gaddafi was popular since he invested Libya\u2019s oil wealth improving the lives of Libyans rather than in Western banks. Before its 2011 destruction, Libyans were the wealthiest in all of Africa. President Obama chose to destroy Libya despite meeting with Gaddafi after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. His Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the strongest advocate for this war crime. When later asked about Gaddafi\u2019s death, she laughed and exclaimed: \u201cWe came, we saw, he died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5Lh4HUyudk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American empire wanted to oust Muammar Gaddafi for decades. He remained in power as he carefully balanced interests in Libya\u2019s complex tribal society and kept the military under control. Gaddafi was popular since he invested Libya\u2019s oil wealth improving the lives of Libyans rather than in Western banks. Before its 2011 destruction, Libyans were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35279,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277\/revisions\/35279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35277"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}