Barbarians require a brutal dicatator to keep them in check.
US interests aren't served by replacing the dictator with Islamofascist Mob Rule.
>>Glen Doherty, was part of a cohort working in Libya finding and destroying shoulder-fired rocket launchers. Who better than an American who had “gone native” to point them in the right direction?
If Obama hadn’t enabled the “rebels”, those weapons wouldn’t be out “in the wild”, would they? And we wouldn’t be so worried about that.
>>Gaddafi’s and Assad’s regimes killed Americans, and would do so again when in a position to do so. It is strange to see arguments here that we shouldn’t lift a finger to get rid of them.
While that is true, it is also true that Gaddafi coughed up his WMD program during Bush’s Administration, a fact you seem to have missed given the very light MSM coverage. You need to be on FR more, clearly. Gaddafi is a guy who “got it” once he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, gave up his WMDs, and we threw that away for ARAB SPRING! DEMOCRACY! Kumbayah nonsense.
Do you really think that was prudent, from a Realpolitik standpoint? If so, why?
As far as Assad, I’m not sure why you bring him into this discussion. Though my attitude is there are no “good guys” involved there, either, at least we don’t have an embassy at stake.