Even though it wasn't. The theory is:
A) Reagan supported the anti-Soviet groups with US arms
B) Bin Laden supported anti-Sviet forces
Ergo: Reagan armed bin Laden
I've always wondered about this theory because it doesn't make Reagan a bad guy as much as it makes bin Laden an ungrateful ****tard. We helped liberate Muslims and walked away without making any demands on them. We were the epitome of a non-imperialist nation assisting others in liberating themselves from an agressor.
But that's beside the point here.
Obama destroyed the government in Egypt and he took the contained threat that was Libya and turned that into a quasi-anarchist state where jihadists are jockeying for position.
So how's that working out, anyway?
Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt
By Leila Fadel, Published: October 12
EL ARISH, Egypt — Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military officials and arms traders in the Sinai.
Egyptian security officials have intercepted surface-to-air missiles, most of them shoulder-launched, on the road to Sinai and in the smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt to the Gaza Strip since Moammar Gaddafi fell from power in Libya in August, a military official in Cairo said. Arms traders said the weapons available on Sinai’s clandestine market include rockets and antiaircraft guns.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/smuggled-libyan-weapons-flood-into-egypt/2011/10/12/gIQA2YQufL_print.htmlJust a reminder: jihadists in Egypt are agitating for war with Israel and NATO-member Turkey is spoiling for a pan-Islamist war against our ME ally as well.
Congratualtions Obama, you've just created the preconditions for a regional war where US troops are on the ground and NATO could be fractured.
