Interesting area to operate in. Vast areas, which can easily hide entire bases, for both sides. But our tech gives us an edge, I think. We only need to hide from the media (easy out there) while they need to hide from numerous surveillance platforms from satellites to UAVs. And once located, dead men tell no tales in the Sahara.
As long as we keep demonstrating that terror doesn't pay for either communist red brigades or jihadi sympathizers in third world states, we'll see more Qaddafi's.
Imagining Kerry taking this view is nigh impossible.