For the record, the average Libyan is much, *much* worse off now than before the Obama/Clinton team decided to topple one North African nation after another. That said, every sentence such as, *"Yet what the viral photos confirm is that Libya was once a place of sprawling hotels, wide and clean city streets, functioning infrastructure, and lively neighborhoods,"* can be followed up with, "and government-run death squads." There was indeed order and stability but dissidents were persecuted mercilessly. Let's not sugar coat things.