The Outsider

The American Conservative

Right

Mixed Factuality

The Outsider

Gaddafi, Existentialist by Charlie Nash (Independent: 2021), 100 pages.On October 20, 2011, the four-decade rule of Muammar Gaddafi came to a brutal end when Libyan rebels, supported by NATO bombers and Predator drones, captured, tortured, and killed the fugitive leader. A few days later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took credit for his downfall with an infamous boast: “We came, we saw, he died.” But instead of the new democratic dawn envi…