Can you express, as a percentage of the population you're so willingly consigning to a future of murderous oppression and torture, the proportion of folks from Cyrenica who went and fought in Iraq?
Is it greater or less than the percentage of folks in the Sunni triangle, whom we eventually allied with to defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq?
The problem is that - unlike in Iraq - we won't have troops on the ground to help defeat the Islamists in Libya. Because the American people are tired of fighting these little wars that evolve in $100b a year exercises in nation-building.
The other issue to consider is that most of the al Qaeda-ists in Iraq were foreigners. Libya's Islamists are home-grown. Iraq's women started wearing the part-burka after we took over. Most of Libya's women wear some form of the burka today in spite of Gaddafi's preference for modern clothing.