How will Hillary defend the Nato bombing of Libya now that people are drowning in the Mediterranean

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28. By asking us if we prefer there to be dictators across north Africa so that desperate refugees can

be prevented from attempting to cross the Mediterranean and either drowning or, more likely, becoming refugees in Western countries which increases the popularity of the far-right, anti-immigrant political parties.

Friendly dictators, like Gaddafi, do a good job of controlling their countries and preventing unseemly things like throngs of refugees from Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, etc. from escaping their suffering. Friendly dictators have been a staple of American foreign policy for decades. I would hope we can one day transition away from that policy.

Gaddafi was being paid quite handsomely by the EU to prevent immigrants from transiting through Libya. And he gave them their money's worth. He was quite good at stopping refugees. I suppose Europeans knew that the departure of Gaddafi would start the flow of refugees again.