There was blood in the streets and there was no indication that the Libyan people weren't going to fight back with everything they had. There were incidents of racial violence in the past under Gaddafi (indeed, some believe fostered by Gaddafi), and Gaddafi was racist with his "opening of the floodgates" of "black immigrants to Europe" if he didn't get paid to stop it. Either way it was going to be bad.
Saying otherwise shows a complete and utter lack of compassion for a peoples, and is just utterly beyond the pale.
"It wasn't going to be bad." 
What a compassionateless horrific view.
You think the thousands killed in Benghazi weren't going to keep fighting? That the thousands killed in Misrata who withstood a siege with no outside help for months weren't going to keep fighting? You have no basis with which to make the claim that "it wasn't going to be bad." None whatsoever. Just more cruel observations of a society that wanted only its self-determination and rose up in 21 cities across a nation. More people rose up against Gaddafi than who rose up against Ben Ali and Mubarak combined.
I'm tired of propaganda and untruths being fed to me, trying to convince me, someone who spent almost a year covering the situation, that Libya would've been "better off." Tired of it.
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