Jim, from all reports, Libya is a lawless wasteland, ruled by warring tribes....fertile breeding ground for fundamentalist Islam.

The despots were there as a barrier to what we see growing in parts of Syria and Iraq. We were too stupid or naïve to see that before our "humanitarian interventions" in Iraq and Libya.....but we have no such excuses now.

"liberalism" should evolve.....if it must. Installing it at the point of a gun is a grave mistake.