Is Libya now the second Arab nation to fall in less than a week?
"The U.S. - led effort to get rid of Gadhafi has caused the U.S. embassy to shut down. We saw terrorists swimming in the U.S. ambassador's pool there in the embassy in Tripoli," Walf Blitzer said on The Situation Room. "This has become a horrible situation in North Africa.
Many experts have dubbed Libya a failed state just a few hours after a horrific terrorist attack in a hotel in Tripoli.
"It is a failed state. We have folks on the ground there and other folks that we know there, there's a definite split between the two different parts of the country," James Reese said.
A group connected with the Islamic State has taken responsibility for the attack which has killed at least eight people including one American.