How did Colonel Gaddafi get away with such evil for so long?

[Rune]

Reagan launched a U.S. bombing raid on Malomar Quadaffy w/ B1's from Diego Garcia.
They didn't get Quadaffy. But they got a close relative, and shook Quadaffy up enough to get him to dump his WMD.

Obama was more effective than Reagan, and now Quadaffy is gone.

The problem is;
that accomplished for Libya the same chaos instilling consequence taking the tyrant out of Baghdad had on Iraq.

It's time we relearned a very important lesson.

"American people are friends of Liberty everywhere, but custodians only of their own." John Adams

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 12 June 1815

Yup and it is a simple lesson too.
You only need to kick a tyrant's ass once with US military. There was no need to go back in after Saddam or Gadaffy Duck

 

[anatta]

Reagan launched a U.S. bombing raid on Malomar Quadaffy w/ B1's from Diego Garcia.
They didn't get Quadaffy. But they got a close relative, and shook Quadaffy up enough to get him to dump his WMD.

Obama was more effective than Reagan, and now Quadaffy is gone.

The problem is;
that accomplished for Libya the same chaos instilling consequence taking the tyrant out of Baghdad had on Iraq.

It's time we relearned a very important lesson.

"American people are friends of Liberty everywhere, but custodians only of their own." John Adams

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 12 June 1815

your worthless immature word play of Quadaffy aside-what you fail to note is Qadaffi was also an ally against AQ -but also directly warned the west not to overthrow him.
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Before he was overthrown and killed, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi warned jihadists would conquer northern Africa

“Al-Qaeda considers all the people to be infidels,” Mr. Gaddafi declared in a speech weeks before NATO began its military intervention in Libya. “They deem all people their enemies. They know nothing but killing.”

The Islamists would pour in from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Egypt, he warned, saying, “These are beasts with turbans.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/b...arned-jihadists-would-conquer-northern-africa

That and the fact he was due to receive a human rights award from the UN.
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Group calls for UN to take back Gaddafi’s human rights prize
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-c...r-un-to-take-back-gaddafis-human-rights-prize

And the fact that his murderer - Obama- met and shook hands with him as recently as 18 months before at the 2009 G-8.

 

[sear]

"Qadaffi was also an ally against AQ" #182

It's not merely a cliché, but an aphorism in the Middle East: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I think it would be a mistake to consider Quadaffi an ally of the U.S., even if there were mutual interests. He was a mass-murderer.

But it was also mistaken to unseat these monsters. Since Mossadegh, U.S. foreign policy has run off the rails.

" Obama- met and shook hands with him as recently as 18 months before at the 2009 G-8." #182

 

[anatta]

"Qadaffi was also an ally against AQ" #182

It's not merely a cliché, but an aphorism in the Middle East: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I think it would be a mistake to consider Quadaffi an ally of the U.S., even if there were mutual interests. He was a mass-murderer.

But it was also mistaken to unseat these monsters. Since Mossadegh, U.S. foreign policy has run off the rails.

" Obama- met and shook hands with him as recently as 18 months before at the 2009 G-8." #182

by Anatta
Qadaffi was also an ally against AQ"

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