There were a lot of people saying we should leave Hussein in power in Iraq. All we had to do is look at the past. Dictators are in place because initially they’re needed. Saddam Hussein kept the radicals in check. That’s why Bin Laden hated him. So any vacuum in Iraq was created by us.
The problem is we went in the First Gulf War, then left him in power. Did they think he really wouldn’t seek out revenge?
Would we have left Hitler in power?
If you are not prepared to occupy a country for a generation, you have no business going in the first place.