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In reply to the discussion: Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about ! [View all]bhikkhu
(10,732 posts)Mao, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Mugabe, Hitler, etc, etc. For the most part, every military dictator or absolute ruler has the best intentions of the populace at heart, and has a head full of wonderful ideas about how to make things perfect for everybody. Its not the policies and the good intentions that matter, its how they are put into practice. Its easy to say that Qadafi (and any other dictator among those mentioned) would have succeeded and delivered the general prosperity he planned to implement, if only the rest of the world let him. In practice, his reign was a long descent, and he clung to power for so long by violence and fear of violence. So it goes.
Its absurd to find him idealized here, for the sake of criticizing Hillary Clinton for supporting the revolution that brought him down.