[speeder]

Tyrants fear the US?

Like, Pinochet? Costa e Silva? Rios Montt? Hosni Mubarak?

Oh wait, those were US-backed and sold stuff that US wanted and bought stuff that were profitable from the US, thus they were not tyrants.

[OGinparadise]

You are going back how many years?

Is the post-Mubarak Egypt any better for the average Egyptian? You can argue that US should mind it's business, but otherwise do not assume that the alternatives are perfect.

Using that logic we could reason that yes, Saddam was horrible, but Iraq without him could be much worst.