Qadaffi may have been bad - but in truth, he didn’t bother other religions or ethnic groups and many people lived fairly peacefully under him. He was a dictator and a bit nutty and full of braggadocio in his supposed foreign policy but we had him under control to a great extent. He was cruelest to the Islamists, because he knew that they were his biggest rivals. So of course we empowered them.
And this has been the pattern ever since.
You mean the policy of “the smartest woman in the world” and “El Presidente” is failing? Can’t be.