bush had many many flaws. Gaddifi being one of them. Bush should have kept the Reagan policy on Libya. Maybe then he wouoldn’t hav eleft office with less than 30% approval. Bush’s doctrine was a mishmash wothin a mishmash just like Obama’s. We attack Iraq but not Iran or Syria, we cozy up to Libya and China but not other enemies. Bush had no overriding policy and was trying to place a cold war ideaology fit into a terrorism model.
Personally I think 300 lives is worth more than $1.5 billion don’t you?
And I do not know of any agreement we have with Syria and are Iran. Had I been in charge at the start of the Iraq war, the ninth ID would have come into Iraq from Israel and they would have stopped when the hit Kabul Afghanistan. And the Israeli air force would have been their ground sweepers.