You know we've broken up with our former BFFs when the press starts to refer to their governments as "regimes." But, yes, we (US and UK) made nice with Libya a few years back. Suddenly they were our buddies again.
Lots of bastards are our buddies. When suddenly for whatever reason these bastards are declared the latest Hitler of the week, the right response isn't to suddenly be shocked that we were canoodling with our BFFs, the right response is to ask why the hell were we buddies in the first place. It wasn't a secret. And an even better response, going forward, is to seriously question why we're buddies with so many bastards.
