“Ready to admit it was far better to leave Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Sadaam Husein, et. al., alone rather than play Thomas Jefferson and ‘spread democracy’?”
You are preaching to the choir.
It all started a very long time ago. Most of it due to the Republican Party’s groveling before TROP because of oil. Remember the excerable maggot Nixon and his running dog Kissinger and the rape of Orthodox Cyprus by America’s dear friendesn the Mohammedan Turks?