SpurMeUp
Tommy Harmer
Not saying what was right or wrong, just saying why (from what I remembered). Given the example of Iraq, going in all guns blazing might not have prevented the civil war or the hundreds of thousands of lost lives and displaced people.
Who gets to run it is often what is tolerable to US and/or Russia whether they had a previous bounty or not.
So essentially the West just changes regimes to equally zhit despot, so long as they get control of resources and alliances (and this is questionable). At the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and annihilation of parts of the country. Was it worth it?
Iraq spawned Al Qaeda. It wasn’t a success either.

