Six years ago Gaddafi respected (feared?) America enough to abandon his nuclear weapons program. (We should be thankful for that now.) But we worried that the Arab world didn't like us.
We are now two-and-a-half years into trying to "repair" our image in the world. Dictators now feel free to kill any of their citizens who oppose them and we find ourselves having to deal with Gaddafi - again.
Personally, I'd prefer to go back to "feared and hated" rather than "liked" in a world we still have to police but where we don't call the shots.
Here's a little secret: they'll never like us no matter what we do, and fear of us keeps people alive in places like Libya and Yemen.
We are now two-and-a-half years into trying to "repair" our image in the world. Dictators now feel free to kill any of their citizens who oppose them and we find ourselves having to deal with Gaddafi - again.
Personally, I'd prefer to go back to "feared and hated" rather than "liked" in a world we still have to police but where we don't call the shots.
Here's a little secret: they'll never like us no matter what we do, and fear of us keeps people alive in places like Libya and Yemen.
