By the way. What strategic and/or imminent threat did Libya represent?

Go back and read Resolution 1970. It was all about "protecting civilians", ie, the rebels who had taken up arms against the recognized government of Libya.

The demonstrations in Iran in January, and the alleged tens of thousands of demonstrators killed, would be a better excuse than what floated 1970. It would have been better if the Israeli had kept their pie hole shut, instead of bragging about how Mossad agents were in country, agitating for more, bigger, more violent, demonstrations.

Keep in mind, Trump the God Awful had declared their nuke facilities "obliterated" last summer. The Omani mediator was reporting Iran offering to give up more than they did in the JCPOA, but Trump the God wanted war, so attacked between "peace" negotiation sessions. The WMD excuse on this go around stinks even more that it did 20 years ago. Recall, Iraq had provided a truckload of documentation that it had gotten ride of everything. UN inspectors were in country, reporting good cooperation by Iraqi authorities, and they weren't finding diddly. But Bush wanted his war, in spite of the lack of evidence.

The Brits, French, Saudis, all contributed combat formations for "Desert Storm".

The Brits, French, Canadians, Italians, Germans, and others, helped in the invasion of Afghanistan, because of the plausible link to the 9/11 attack.

The list of participants in the invasion of Iraq was a lot shorter, because the justification was pretty questionable: UK, Australia, Poland.

Trump the God Awful thinks he's the center of the universe. No credible justification. Goes out of his way to insult our allies. And, son of a gun, our allies are telling him to pound sand.

Steve