[AzzarTheGod]

Syria should on paper, be our closest ally in the Middle East theater if not for the Russian and Chinese ties.

Qaddafi's dictatorship was sacked because their relations had really soured big time with France. With France turning on him, he was greenlit and fair game for a regime change in addition to his ailing mental health.

He was a power broker in the Middle East theater and started to clam up and may have asked for too much sovereignty from Uncle Sam. Witnesses had a French intelligence agent unaffiliated with the Revolution, pushed past the men detaining Qaddafi, leaned in, and shot Qaddafi while the captors were deciding what to do with him.

But he was a dicktater hehe who cares.