Surprise! I found even more facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !

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11. You really need to read a little deeper than Wikipedia

Let's stipulate that Gadaffi was a brutal dictator. But let's also stipulate that we are quite selective about which brutal dictators we depose and which we booster.

In any case, it was a tangled knot with many strands in 2011.

And Gaddafi was easier to deal with than ISIS.

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Moreover, as Alan Kuperman of the University of Texas and Stephen Chapman of the Chicago Tribune have now shown, the claim that the United States had to act to prevent Libyan tyrant Muammar al-Qaddafi from slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Benghazi does not stand up to even casual scrutiny. Although everyone recognizes that Qaddafi is a brutal ruler, his forces did not conduct deliberate, large-scale massacres in any of the cities he has recaptured, and his violent threats to wreak vengeance on Benghazi were directed at those who continued to resist his rule, not at innocent bystanders. There is no question that Qaddafi is a tyrant with few (if any) redemptive qualities, but the threat of a bloodbath that would "stain the conscience of the world" (as Obama put it) was slight.

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http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/04/04/top-5-reasons-we-keep-fighting-all-these-

wars/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/07/gaddafi-warned-blair-of-threat-from-opening-door-to-al-qaida