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123. He's right about Gaddafi.

Gaddafi's Libya had the highest HDI, highest GDP per capita, highest life expectancy, and highest Gini Coefficient in Africa, according ti the United Nations.The rebels, backed by Islamists and by petroleum barons, relied on extreme racist and anti-Semitic propaganda to undermine Gaddafi's legitimacy. Remember that while Reagan's America and Thatcher's Britain were standing up in support of Apartheid South Africa, Gaddafi's Libya was arming and funding the ANC in their struggle against the White supremacist terrorist regime that had been in place there. If you supported the rebels and the NATO intervention to support Gaddafi, you were on the same side as the Islamic extremists and of Big Oil. Gaddafi's shortcomings and sins are manifold, but none of that should take away from the spectacular achievements Libya, previously an impoverished backwater controlled by monied Italian interests, realized under his regimes. People who back the rebels are politically illiterates morons, no different from those who lauded the Mujahideen as freedom fighters merely because of their dislike for the Soviet Union.

Just for fun, how about we compare the evolution of Egypt's quality of life indices under Mubarak with Libya's under Gaddafi...