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Colonel Gaddafi Part 8: The Arab Spring

Real Dictators

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NATO Supports Gaddafi Regime Change

Gaddafi had become a useful person to the West in the sort of post-Iraq War on Terror era. He made deals with Silbio Berlusconi's Italy to keep sub-Saharan African migrants in Africa. The first Libyan civil war, as it will become known, is brutal and horrific. Up to 25,000 are killed. Double data wounded. How do you plan to destroy a regime emboldened by millions of citizens?

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