By Jane Stillwater  http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-us-freed-libya.html

     In 2001, all we ever heard about in the media was how America was going to “free Afghanistan for democracy.”  Sixteen years and several trillion dollars later, Afghanistan should be as free as a bird now, right?

     So I went to Expedia.com and clicked on “flight + hotel” to Kabul.  Nothing came up.  Afghanistan is so very free these days that American tourists can’t even go there.  Hell, even war correspondents can’t get in there either.  Hmmm.

     But what about Iraq, the country that America spent approximately five trillion dollars freeing from that evil dictator what’s-his-name.  Plus when I was a kid, I had always dreamed about…