Muammer Gaddafi, the maverick Libyan dictator who was killed on Thursday, had a grandiose vision of himself and of his country’s place in history.
He dominated the oil-rich country for 42 years, during which Libyans were impoverished and repressed by his policies but nonetheless forced to pay homage to the illusion that he was a political visionary.
For much of his rule Libya was a pariah state, shunned by the international community because of the colonel’s involvement in terrorism. But the
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