FOUR DICTATORS — Part 2: Gaddafi, The Man Who Bet Wrong

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In 2003 Muammar Gaddafi did what the West had been asking Iran to do for years — he gave up his weapons of mass destruction, opened his programs to inspectors, and tried to join the international order. Eight years later, NATO jets helped rebels find him in a drainpipe outside Sirte. Part 2 of FOUR DICTATORS tells the story of why Gaddafi rose, why his system lasted 42 years, why he made the deal, and why the deal failed to save him — and how his death became the argument inside Tehran that nobody should ever trust the West again. This is the lesson that shaped the next 15 years of Middle East policy.