Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite

When Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003 by U.S. forces, Iraq War advocates boastfully celebrated the event as proof that they were right and used it to mock war opponents (Joe Lieberman and John Kerry, for instance,gleefully exploited the event to demand that Howard Dean admit his war opposition was wrong). WhenMuammar Gaddafi wasforced by NATO bombing in August, 2011 to flee Tripoli, advocates of U.S. intervention played the same game(ThinkProgress gleefully exploited the occasionto try to...