You break it you but it and Hillary has never been called out for her support with the military intervention in Libya. No questions about the aftermath of such actions, or any plan with dealing with the blowback.
“You break it you but it and Hillary has never been called out for her support with the military intervention in Libya. No questions about the aftermath of such actions, or any plan with dealing with the blowback.”
This seems to have been buried. Libya certainly was far from perfect before, but the increase in misery there is spectacular after Europe and the US “won” against basically a third world country. And that misery will come back to bite them.
I hate the word "blowback" -- it's ideological 'Ratspeak/Commiespeak </off redundancy mode>, and their slanguage is the enemy of clear thought.
"Entailed consequences" and "ramifications" are what conservatives talk about, and there was plenty of talk in 2003, when George Bush succumbed to the mission-creep advocacy of the national-greatness Republicans (John McCain, exhibit A) and the neoconservatives in the administration (Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Richard Cheney et al.).
There were lots of conservatives in 2003 who advocated "in-and-out": Kill Saddam, kill the "wolf cubs" to destroy regime continuity, break down the regime, break his Republican Guards, and go home. Remember that it was Colin Powell who invoked the "Pottery Barn rule"; his was a minority report, cold rissoles from the 41 administration about a "viable Iraq", that became Bush Administration policy. By contrast, Stephen Decatur and his president, Thomas Jefferson, hallucinated no such obligation toward the corsairs of the Maghreb, and would not have agreed with Powell on the subject of "nation-building".
As for your comment about "no question", George Bush did master the Iranians' Badr Brigade tools and AQI and left Jug Ears a pacified Iraq, which Jug Ears promptly threw away with his self-consequent ideological pronunciamentos that by themselves made everything instantly worse, and then deepened the dissolution of America's gains by simply bugging out and leaving Iraq to become a pawn of Iran and a sectarian battlefield. Bush mastered the bad guys, and Obama sympathized with and fomented them, it's as simple as that.