I love that the random French prisoner has a strong stance on Gaddafi
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They'd be folk heroes in my book.
I feel conflicted
You should absolutely not be conflicted. Gaddafi was a good man, or at least what he was doing was good for Libya. His fault was believing in democracy too much, creating too much democracy, so much that it was used to de-nuclear the country when he was opposed to it, and that decision ultimately killed him.
If you want to understand the structure of Libya's democracy you should read: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/01/12/gaddafis-libya-was-africas-most-prosperous-democracy/
Gaddafi should be criticised, but not for being bad, he was committed to his own theories and they were wrong. Democracy is good, don't get so much of it that your people vote to denuclearise though.
To list off other criticisms, he was also an ardent anti-communist who threw other African revolutionaries under the bus and even occasionally aligned himself with the US (and genuinely thought he could appease them before shit went down).
Now, was Gaddafi more often than not an enemy of imperialism? Was he a genuinely progressive bourgeois-nationalist and a voice for Pan-Africanism? Was Libya (hell, the world) better under his leadership? All yes, of course.
Yeah I figure the "committed to his own theories" part is what misaligned him with communists.
Could've been very different.
There's lots of valid criticism of Gaddafi, but not one word of it is related to why NATO killed him and turned Libya into a failed state.
I’m surely not conflicted about that, don’t fret
Is it the fact that you know - generally anyone don't want to be fucked up in prison, whether by physical, sexual, or even verbal assault? Yeah sure - anyone understands that.
But I thank to God you are not conflicted about Sarkozy getting his comeuppance.
Oh no. He’ll get his due.
Why?