Well, Iraq was pushed to collapse. That did not go so well.
What do you mean? The country was then conquered within months by us. Saddam Hussein himself was then captured, tried publicly, and executed deservingly.
Seeing that happen, Muamar Qaddafi relented too — without costing us another dollar or a drop of blood.
That the current Administration managed to destroy those successes by pulling from Iraq too soon and hunting down Qaddafi on made-up pretexts is a shame, but that does not mean, the original plan was flawed.
I am not sure the push-to-collapse strategy has any successes to its name
The only alternatives to such slow suffocation are: a) military intervention; b) pretending, it is Ok. Which do you prefer?