Juan Cole: Qadhafi Drank the Kool-Aid

Metaphors about Jim Jones and the People's Temple suicides back in 1978 may be lost on a lot of younger readers today, but Juan Cole goes there in an interesting metaphorical venture, and it's worth a read. Of course if the new leaders of Libya are right that at least 50,000 Libyans died this year, Qadhafi took a lot more people with him than Jim Jones. I don't totally embrace Juan's analogy, since it sounds as if Qadhafi did not intend to die but to keep fighting, but it's worth considering.