This situation in Libya is a reminder that we need to stop fetishizing Western society and assuming that any nation taking any step in any way towards a society that looks more like ours is to be achieved at any cost.
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We are in desperate need of a total reorientation of our thinking about a) how and why nations intervene in each others' affairs, b) how and why nations improve politically and c) what "improving" politically even looks like, given how much we have to hide to claim we're so great
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Also obviously the answer to "gaddafi was better than this" is "to who? Which Libyans are we talking about?" But anyway.