gaddafi had been scared straight.e turned over his weapons of mass destruction, cooperating against terrorist. in return we had lifted sanctions, reestablish diplomatic ties. but president obama intervened to topple both regimes. what came next? the muslim brotherhood in egypt, and dangerous chaos in libya to this day. no one ever mistook move barack or qaddafi as the little sisters of the poor. the world is a dangerous place, not a church picnic. miss gabbard understands this, which is why she also saw the problem of the regime change interventions in these places. the vast number of government throughout history and still today are not democratic. we may wish it were different and we can work to improve it, but that is the way the world is. if we only befriended nations that shared our system of government, and our social and cultural sensibilities, we wouldn't have many friends. in a fallen world we have to take our friends where we find them. no question stable democracies make the most stable friends, but what ma