There is something grimly ironic

about a "beloved" third world tyrant hiring mercenaries to slaughter his own people so that he and his trashy ne'er do well family can go on nickel and dimin' the nation.
Libya's Supreme Autocrat & xenophobe, Moamar Khadafi must import hired killers to keep his throne...What times we do live in.

So of course, faced with a crisis the President has called for Moamar Khadafi to "step down"... this means that by Monday morning Fox News & the Tea Partei will flip over to the side of the Libyan dictator.

Colonel Khadafi (aka "The King of Kings and "The Revolutionary from the Tents")

Has vowed in a bloodcurdling speech on state television to "die a martyr" in defense of his manorial right to rule Libya like a seedy Plantation.

Yipes this has all the resonance of Mussolini's blustery declarations circa 1945 that he and "five thousand" picked blackshirts would die a Fascist Martyr's death in the Val Tellina in Northern Italy.
It all sounded heroic and defiant, but an hour later Il Duce was cravenly & fruitless  negotiating with the very partisans that had him surrounded.
And unless Khadafi has some serious thugs behind him, he will likely swing from his heels just like Mussolini.
All this would be funny except real people are dying in the streets while this crazy old man rants on and on.

Meanwhile when does this thing hit Cuba and North Korea...Or does it?