Originally Posted by
SASless
The French shall always be the French.
They were not helpful when the USAF out of the UK knocked on Qadaffi's Door as you recall.
They may have felt removing him would do more harm than good, just like they warned Saddam had no WMDs and removing him was a bad idea. Hindsight being 20/20 and all that, both opinions would appear to have had merit.