I'll let the rest go as a disagreement between the two of us.
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And it's already working.
I don't know how old you are, but I remember very clearly how much Libya was considered a threat. Quaddafi sponsered terrorists who blew up planes, he attacked his neighbors and was also pursuing nukes.
Now he sees that we aren't afraid to take someone like him out.
Note once again, this didn't happen after negotiation and diplomacy (which we have used repeatedly with Libya), it happened after we took out the Taliban and Saddam.
Yes, sometimes force, raw, naked force, is necessary.
And those nations who don't acknowledge it do so at their peril.
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Except for this part.
Quaddafi did not decide to disarm because of what we did to the Taliban and Saddam. Libya was already intensely into negotiations with the US government and the families of the Pan-Am Flights victims long before we went into Iraq. They have also been actively disarming since before the Iraq War 2 as well. Quaddafi's announcement was done in the hopes of bringing attention to what he has been doing and hopefully getting some deals in the process.
If anything this is a convergence of interests as Mohamar sees Bush as a possibly ally to get rid of the fundamentalist insurgence in his own country. He's another man in the same vein as Saddam who runs a mostly secular government and have the religious breathing down his neck for a coup.