I don’t want to believe that we’re cocking up Libya. But we are, aren’t we?

I’m not sure it’s fair to call Colonel Gaddafi ‘paranoid’.

I’m not sure it’s fair to call Colonel Gaddafi ‘paranoid’. Not really. ‘Paranoid’ is what the King of Bahrain would be if he decided that western governments actually did care that he was rounding up protestors — and the doctors who treat them, and reporters, and students, and pretty much anybody else with the wrong sort of beard — and that these western governments were actually secretly planning to do something about it, despite giving every outward appearance of not giving a monkey’s arse. Say. Whereas Gaddafi just seems to think everybody is out to get him, and they are.

It’s a slow-motion disaster, Libya, isn’t it? First we reckoned that so-called Gaddafi loyalists were bound to rise up on the side of freedom whatever happened, and then they were bound to rise up on the side of freedom, but if only we could stop him from bombing things.