Factually accurate if not terribly bright to say.
I agree and said so at the time. We should never take out a dictator in a country that only operates well under a dictator until we KNOW we’ve got a better dictator to replace him.
Trump is 100% right Saddam was better than the shit storm we have now. Iraq was such a waste of capital and US lives. A very dumb strategic move, that I sadly supported at the time in part due to the patriotism surge because 9/11. Hindsight is 20/20 and these muslims need a dictator to murder them and keep them in line. Planet democracy does not work.
I agree concerning Gadaffi, but not Sadaam.
Gadaffi was trying to bring Libya into the modern era, and he was doing hydro-logical work to green the Libyan desert that was becoming one of the Wonders of the World.Obama used Libya to ruin NATO.
Saddam was just a pure despot who was propped up by the Saudis to buffer Iran. He was horrid.And its good that he was ousted but the problem is that Obama would not finish the job properly. After WWII the West occupied Germany and Italy to make sure they got off on the right foot. Obama purposefully prevented that rebuilding in Iraq and should be punished for it.
I agree with Trump on this. If you’re set on “regime change”, you should have some plausible alternative (based on reality, not wishful thinking) to the dictators you overthrow. The reality of overthrowing strongmen in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Third World is usually a failed state plagued by sectarian and/or tribal wars, not the rosy picture of “democracy and freedom” that we heard from liberal and neoconservative supporters of regime change.