One of the constant complaints and nagging I hear from the Left about the Iraq War and removal of Saddam Hussein is that Hussein, cruel and bloodthirsty as he was, kept Iraq in peace. They go one to spout that removing him was our biggest blunder, and has led to ten plus years of war, bloodshed and chaos.
I suppose to an extent, there’s some truth to that. What did Powell say, “If you break it, you own it.”?
Still, that overlooks the brutality of Hussein and his Ba’athists, and what a threat he was to the entire Middle East, how he constantly shot at our aircraft enforcing the No Fly Zone that he himself agreed to, etc.
And Libya has also been a disaster since Gadhafi was overthrown. Even now, another Libyan terrorist group has taken several jet liners to God know where and for what purpose?
Removing Mubarak was also a mistake we’re still paying for. Thank God that the election of the Muslim Brotherhood showed the Egyptians that!!! You can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!
So maybe we can all learn something about these dictators after all.
Strongmen keep the militants at bay.