Be Gaddafi

>be Gaddafi
>be born in rural area
>dad wants you to get educated
> walk 20 miles to town every week and sleep in a mosque just so you can be smarter than the other kids in your socioeconomic bracket
> grow up
> believe in Pan Arabism
> believe in Socialism
> believe in nationalism
> reject Western colonialism
> reject drugs and alcohol
> Nasser is your hero
> Read about Abe Lincoln and Sun Yat-Sen
> Go to university
> Banned political parties in town have your ideals, but are split along factional lines
> join none of them
> Hate the British imperialists
> Hate the monarchist government
> but know you can't win without training
> join the Libyan army with some like-minded bros
> get trained by the british imperialists and their monarchist lapdogs
>get away with insubordination and other edgy behavior
>go to England
>Learn English
>get educated more
>finish training
>cultivate clandestine cells of like minded comrades
>pull off a virtually bloodless coupe
>announce the foundation of a Socialist Republic
> go on to get stabbed in the asshole by your people in a bloody coup backed by Western imperialists

Is there anything sadder than this?

Cherrypicking

Elaborate

He will go down in history as a martyr forever. In a thousands years Libyans will still remember him as the liberator and founder of their nation. Will anyone remember Obama or Cameron in a thousand years? I doubt it.

>Earth populated in thousands of years

Otherwise I agree.

oy vey how times have changed

Imagine /pol/ seeing this picture with literally any other person pre-2015

Libya is either getting partitioned or overtaken by the Muslim Brotherhood, who hated him anyway and will make sure to destroy his name, user.

Current forces in Lybia basically go:
Muslamic Rayguns: Most troops and popular support, but no foreign support.
Former military who betrayed Gaddafi: Second most popular and supported by Putin, so no Western country will ever recognize this regime as legitimate.
Western puppets: No popular support, but lots of oil and business ties.

As soon as the 70 year old mummies of the Putin-backed side die of old age, Libya is done for.

You seem to have forgotten the slave dungeon where he raped countless of his own people, parading them as his bodyguards while getting off to their torture and eventual killings. Ntm what he did to his own people who criticized him

Granted Trump doesnt look exactly thrilled to be there

America has so much blood on their hands and still consider themselves the good guys.
They can defend themselves and shit but they shouldn't call themselves the good guys. That's just plain wrong

yeah, it's the story of a lot of regions in the world. We are through with the age of colonialism, yet any leader that goes against the interests of the world powers is deposed. Although Gaddafi did his own shit to speed it up, there are countless instances of it happening

Kind of amazing how we consider "them" (19th-20th century humans) as another species. We are the same people who genocided for loot

he forgot to mention the part where Gaddafi became a hedonistic selfish dictator who became hated by his people

Were they real "his people" or were they those travelling jihadi ISIS types?

those people are savages, he needed to be firm.

>reject drugs and alcohol
eh, pretty sure that mofugga was smoking hash and opium on the reg in his later years

so he did nothing wrong?

Why can't strongman gonna strong anymore?
>islamic gommunist
>for real
8/10 would buy clothing with

dude that's just Muslim culture you culture absolutist, they coined harem ffs.

>everyone in Libya loved him and everything was perfect

>country instantly dissolves into a hundred factions ripping each others faces off, the very second he's removed from power

Pick one and only one.

Was the Ba'ath Party the Arab world's only hope?

If he was so well loved, how did a bunch of travelling ISIS types able to get a foothold to begin with?

>peaceful resistors
>at an armory
when do you break a military dictatorship and have guns and soldiers stay put?

...

reminder that lawrence of arabia and humphrey were two british spys sent to destabilize the muslim world by forming an alliance between america and saudi arabia.
They were successful and 84 years ago the saudis became the greatest allies of america. Ibn saud was the americanophile that started it all.

I mean before the breaking. How was there breaking to begin with if he was so great?

>enforced sharia law

His female ""bodyguards"" were all raped and killed by the Western-backed rebels after he was killed, though. That is just Muslims for you.

Being a good ruler is not just about furthering your own interests, but about furthering your own interests while making it seem like you are looking out for everyone else.