[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.

[pavlov]

Also Panama's population and land area are an order of magnitude smaller than these Middle East states, and they were already an American client state in the past.

[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_...

[TulliusCicero]

Okay, then how about Japan and West Germany?

It's almost like whether "regime change" works or not depends on the specifics. It's not something that can be universally generalized.