Europe doesn't even have to look back very far to see what could/would happen with Saddam... Golf war 1.
Iraq invades Kuwait. If the world had done nothing, Saddam would likely now be controlling the Saudi oil fields as well. IIRC, much of the Kuwaiti oil goes to Europe. How would they have felt about the US if we had stayed out of it then?
You have to confront a tyrant early. Hitler was not confronted before WWII & became stronger. Confronted early, the world could have stopped that tyrant with far less loss of life than what was ultimately tallied.
