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15. Actually, the UK destroyed Iraq.

When the empire was collapsing, the UK divided the middle east into the current countries. Unfortunately they didn't pay attention to any sectarian lines. As a result, you get Kurds split between Iraq, Turkey and others, Sunis split between parts of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, and Shiites split between Iran and Iraq.

The only thing that could hold Iraq together was brutal dictatorship. Which we toppled.

Anyway, again the fact that some people are PNAC idiots does not make everyone a PNAC idiot. We can either walk away and let brutality and death smother Iraq, or we can try to steer them towards a less violent breakup. Note that the latter does not involve any troops. And may not be successful.

Also, Syria was destroyed by drought. The conflict there was kept at a simmer until the drought made life bad enough for large scale rebellion. Yay climate change!

As for Lybia, our involvement was to prevent Qaddafi from using his tanks to slaughter the rebels. Would you have preferred that outcome?