Turning on the news the morning of September 11th, 2012 I expected to see the tributes to that awful and bloody day. In between news coverage, there was murmuring of trouble brewing in Cairo, and about unrest in Libya but there were no serious developments until later in the evening. Then we learned that thousands ...

Around 11:30AM EST, the Libyan Transitional National Council confirmed that Gaddafi had been killed. A ruthless dictator from September of 1969 to September of 2011, Gaddafi’s regime has lasted longer than most of us have been breathing. He orchestrated the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, which killed 270 people. In the eighties he systematically murdered ...