Robert Gates' Fears About Libya
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightIn his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows Robert Gates recalls that the Reagan administration “wanted [Muammar Gaddafi’s] hide in the worst way.” The Defense Department even drew up a contingency plan for a U.S.-Egyptian attack on Libya, Gates remembers in the book. Gates, who was then CIA deputy director for intelligence, balked at the idea. He worried about the consequences; namely that such action could spark a global outcry against American imperialism, and an upsurge in terrori...