Indeed, the ISIS presence in Libya has now grown to the point that there is open talk of another (major military intervention) to root them out. Meanwhile, the decision to overthrow a despotic ruler in a foreign country after he had chosen to turn over his rudimentary nuclear weapons program sent a very clear message to every other despotic ruler in the world: if you have nukes, dont give them up; and if you dont have them, get some.
If this is smart power at its best, as Clinton says, I would hate to see it at its worst.
Nobody would have tolerated their mass invasion plans otherwise.