[Fair Paul]

With members of his family, close entourage and senior advisers dead, Gadhafi disappeared from the world stage for a long time and eventually re-emerged seeking reconciliation and engagement with America and the West.

Well, not exactly. There was that little matter of Pan Am 103 where he murdered 270, including 189 Americans.

[justlurking]

Khadafi decided it was time to clean up his act shorttly after Saddam swung from the end of a rope.

It might not have been exactly that time. But, after he saw was the US could do and did to Iraq and Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, he knew he might be next.