@bmwrider Hmmm... Evidence of war crimes have been found by numerous neutral authorities. Whether or not it was a genocide or acts of genocide with a different goal in mine (i.e. forcing migration rather than eliminating a group) is debatable. Given that both Kosovo and Serbia are relatively stable countries, that have enjoyed progress in regards to their economies and overall human development indicators, I can't feel overly terrible about that. Not the United States or anyone else can act as the world police. The KLA were terrorists, IMO, but that doesn't mean that Serbia should have been allowed to commit war crimes.

Gadaffi had already lost most of his support before the U.S. was seriously involved. Remember, the Arab Spring swept away the Murabak regime, which we were generally quite friendly with. The regime was collapsing before the U.S. got involved. More likely, the motive for involvement was to have a seat at the table after it was set and done.

Does that make intervention worth it? Not IMO, but there's a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, gap between the Iraq war and aerial bombing campaigns in both Kosovo and Libya, with both having broad international support, and neither a conflict that we picked and started.