[Hillary and Obama showed him! She went one further and broke Libya into pieces, and started a civil war which is still going on. ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_73
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
And the Libyan civil war had been brewing for decades. Until the Syrian revolt gave his opponents heart, Gaddafi appeared to be too strong to challenge.
Turns out that unlike Saddam, Gaddafi had feet of clay, relatively speaking. Saddam withstood a decade’s worth of air strikes and required a full-scale invasion to topple. Gaddafi? Not so much. Gaddafi was just less competent than Saddam as a dictator.
So you think the U.S should play continuous world cop. Good luck with that
P.S. there a *hitload of African countries just waiting for the Good Cop to jump in. Go right ahead