“If Gaddafi were not stopped, he said, “the words of the international community would be rendered hollow.”
Apparently that logic was impermissible when a Republican president elected to apply it to a dictator who had thumbed his nose at UN sanctions and a no-fly zone for roughly a decade.
I also think it’s interesting that Obama overrode the opposition of all his military advisors—quite in contrast to Bush in his decision to go to war.