Four years ago, the United States spent state resources towards the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, under the pretext of saving the Libyan people from a tyrannical leadership. These days, it is doing exactly that again, this time to remove the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from office.
But in addition, there is the campaign against Islamic State, which now controls a third of the country. So Washington can claim that its entry in Syria hits two birds with one stone, so to speak: ...
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