Your analysis is good. Gaddafi was NO threat to us. He became a stabilizing influence in the Arab community. A bad Obama-//Clinton thing.
Assad is not a threat to us. We should not want him out at this time. Bad in general, Bush, Clinton, and maybe Trump.
Saddam was the only stabilizer against Iran. We were negligent in wanting him out. That was all a Bush thing.
Stunning to read this here on FR, and in a good way. We need to learn from our mistakes. I never supported the invasion of Iraq, or even Afghanistan, when 15/19 of the 9/11 hijackers were from S.A. That’s not to say that we should embrace crooked or nefarious leaders in other countries. We need to find ways to peacefully engage with them in trade, and hopefully to change their ways by our own example.
I really hope that Trump sees the light on Russia and the ME. I think if he is prudent in foreign policy, he will go down as one of the better President’s we have had in a long time.
There was nothing stabilizing out of Saddam getting nukes and invading Kuwait
There is nothing stabilizing out of Assad playing a double game of paying state workers to make oil for IsIS and welcoming Baath members of Iraq to lead the islamists in the region to rid of Kurds and legitimate Syrian student protests
There is nothing stabilizing out of fictitious post colonial districts of Iraq and Syria which rule by tribal empowerment to regimes to colonize other tribes.