> Let me start with the Fidel Formula: Whatever Gaddafi's record may
> have been up to the point when NATO moved to attack the country, his
> obligation then, as the leader of Libya, was to fight the imperialists
> with everything at his disposal.
NATO didn't attack Libya. The United Nations authorized a limited intervention to save millions of unarmed Libyan civilians from being slaughtered by thugs -- thugs armed to the teeth with billions of dollars of weapons purchased from European suppliers, no less.
-- DRR