How come protesters protest with all those guns and AK 47?. Are they protesters or military assauters, what do you think Gaddaffi regime has to do with them?.. using tear gas?. By the way you seems to be brain washed by Western democracy which will never be an alternative for development in developing states. The recent development in Southern Asia states never came through Western kind of Demos and regime alterations. You need to differentiate btn good and bad dictators, while Gaddifi is among the good one. You are obsessed with Western Democracy which encourages hedonism into poor nations and have divided the world symmetrically between the rich and the poor halves. The rich defend their interest by any price while the poor are starving with hunger and conflicts. What you think as power alterations in developed world democracy is nothing rather than the permanent interest of pentagon and all alike which must be fulfilled by any regime in power no matter, what.. thats why extreme ideologies such as Marxism never win and are prevented by any price. So long as Libyans are in other half of the sphere of the globe which has to be featured by, conflicts, hunger, poverty and other misery as the policy proposal by pentagon after cold war they will never get even little like what they have on Gaddaffi regime.