This could get ugly. Gaddafi wants to be King of Africa. And from somewhere he has acquired a functioning brain. Our biggest advantage against this type of ambition was that we may be dumb but they are flat out morons.
Case in point Mugabe's little death spiral. He will soon not have a country or population at all. They will either leave or be dead. A little bit of thought and he could have had a reasonable amount of power in southern Africa. Now he is going to end up with nothing.
Gaddafi is another matter. And I foresee heap big trouble coming down the pike. I hope I am wrong. I would love to be wrong. I fear I am not.
a.cricket
If Gaddafi plays his cards right he could actually get to own the entire country and not fight a war for it. All he has to do is wait for the people to drop dead from starvation and march his army in to cease the country. He could get prime farmland and water for his country doing that, while at the same time exploring for oil in Zimbabwe.