[pavlov]

The killings of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were so amazingly successful in stabilizing those countries that Americans keep repeating the pattern.

[TulliusCicero]

Not a killing, but capturing Noriega did in fact work out well. Panama of today is generally stable and rich (by Latam standards anyway).

[jacquesm]

Panama's main asset can't be removed from Panama.

[sph]

This is prime cherry-picked propaganda bullshit. What about Augusto Pinochet, to name drop a counterexample? How did that work out for the Chilean people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet#U.S._backing_...

[mkoubaa]

It's almost like they are either stupid or the point was never about stability