Otherwise known as "the new State Commissariat travel warning to prevent a repeat of the Benghazi massacre that officially never happened":
The State Department has shuttered the U.S. embassy in Libya and evacuated American staffers there as the security situation in the capital Tripoli deteriorates amid worsening clashes between rival militias.
The department said in a statement that American embassy staff left Tripoli on Saturday and traveled overland to neighboring Tunisia. Embassy operations in Tripoli will be suspended until the security situation improves, it said. Tripoli has been embroiled for weeks in inter-militia violence that has killed and wounded dozens on all sides. The fighting has been particularly intense at the city's airport.
Secretary of State John Kerry said "free-wheeling militia violence" prompted the move.
This is as opposed to the "pin-wheeling militia violence" in Gaza and the "average, ordinary, everyday, humdrum militia violence" in Iraq, and the "boring, tedious, coma-inducing, like-watching-paint-dry militia violence" in Afghanistan. Because if there's one thing that bloodthirsty jihadists value, it's violent diversity.
You'll be happy to know that the retreating embassy personnel - who are SO much safer in Tunis (aka the birthplace of the "Arab Spring"), natch - were accompanied by several squadrons of F-16 fighters and Osprey aircraft, or a big enough air armada to conquer several small African countries if they'd felt the urge. Although not any of the "free-wheeling" ones.
It's almost like the Obama Regime has learned a lesson that was officially never taught.
Maybe it's a time-travel paradox or something.
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