• irelephant@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Gaddafi was bad, sure, but NATO reduced libya to a state where there’s now open air slave markets.

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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      20 hours ago

      Gaddafi doesn’t seem as bad only because you have never seen published photographs of his atrocities. Extrajudicial killings, torture, public executions, political repression, and elimination of dissent. Lots of horrors that I guess are okay as long as the trains run on time.

      We also don’t know what a Libya where NATO didn’t intervene looks like. It’s not unbelievable that the civil war would’ve resulted in the same result but with a much higher body count.

    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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      1 day ago

      Gaddafi was bad, sure

      By creating the country in Africa with highest Human Development Index instead of becoming your run off the mill slavery-sustained petrostate like Saudi Arabia?