"they’ve had free education, free health, they could study abroad. When they got married they got a certain amount of money. so they were rather the envy of many other citizens of african countries. now, of course, since nato’s humanitarian intervention the infrastructure of their country has been bombed back to the stone age. they will not have the same quality of life. women probably will not have the same degree of emancipation under any new transitional government. the national wealth is probably going to be siphoned off by western corporations. perhaps the standard of living in libya might have been slightly higher than it perhaps is now in america and the uk with the recession."

former mi5 agent annie machon said in a report to the conflict in libya

oh dear, oh very, very, dear...