Looks like Libya is teetering on the brink of revolution itself now. Cool! Qaddafi is way worse of a dictator than Mubarak or whoever was in charge in Tunisia (both in terms of human rights abuses to his own people and his impact on American interests abroad). Plus he's really weird looking and has a bad fashion sense.
BUT. I was reading a conversation with Gail Collins (liberal NYT columnish) and David Brooks (moderate conservative NYT columnish) where Collins stupidly said something like "who knows, maybe if we hadn't invaded Iraq, the Iraqis themselves would be throwing out Saddam now, just like the Egyptians did." I think we can all agree that that would be nice. However, as Brooks astuteley countered "Saddam would shoot!" Meaning that, unlike Mubarak who lost control of the military, Saddam would've just slaughtered all the protesters. How do we know? He did! He gassed the Kurds in the mid-90s. "He gassed his own people" - George W. Bush. I quote a lot of people who were terrible at their jobs in this blog, apparently. Anyway, the question now to me is -- will Qaddafi shoot his own people in order to retain power? I don't know. I mean, he's already killed some of them, but the real question is will he just unleash the army on the protesters with absolute license to kill. I don't think he will, but he might. He's pretty crazyevil.
UPDATE: This is exactly what I was talking about. Some Libyan colonels are fleeing the country so they don't have to bomb the civilians, but others are
bombing indiscriminately...
Guess which one is Qaddafi. 
