On a whim? O please...mowing down citizens who want freedom is not a whim. Good lord....
Do we really know they want “freedom”? Maybe they just want to supplant Gadhaffi’s dictatorship with a dictatorship of mullahs and sharia. Just who are these purported “freedom-fighters”? Further, if they are trying to kill Gadhaffi, doesn’t he have the right to try to kill them first? I agree if they are just standing around living they should not be randomly shot. I really don’t think the residents of Libya are seeking some sort of kumbaya moment of democracy and love.