By Joe Kaufman, Hudson Institute
Less than a year after the invasion of Iraq took place in December 2003, Libya’s then-ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, gave up his Weapons of Mass Destruction program, apparently out of fear that war could come to him and his nation, as it just had to Saddam Hussein and Iraq. His renunciation of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction was counted as one of the major achievements of the Bush Administration.
Gaddafi had previously been involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, a terrorist attack which took the lives of 270 people, 189 of which were Americans. However, since Gaddafi agreed to the dismantling of his weapons, Libya was no longer seen as a threat to either the United States or to its allies in the free world.
Recent events may dramatically change the situation. read on