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The West gets revenge on Gaddafi.

Now is a good time to remember the many Americans, and other innocents, killed by this awful regime. Their families should feel some satisfaction that justice may finally be finding the murderer of their loved ones. - Jeffrey Goldberg

Indeed. But this does raise an interesting question. Of all the reasons proffered up for NATO's intervention in Libya's civil war, what role did a desire for revenge play in the minds of Western policymakers?