Was the intervention in Libya a....

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I supported it then strongly, and would support is strongly again.

It was not another Iraq. We caused the Iraq mess.

Libya was already a mess, caused by Libyans, and the responsibility of Libyans to resolve it. We intervened to end the mad dictator's grip on power, which we did cheaply (only $1b), with no loss of life on our side, and it was over relatively quickly.

Would it have been France's fault if the newly-independent United States had its civil war over slavery a few decades earlier than it ended up being? No. Would that have made France's intervention in the American Revolution a sh**show? No.