"Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had just spent two hours on Friday arguing that Libya’s form of government was the truest democracy, when the call went out to a small group of foreign correspondents for questions. This correspondent asked how democracy was compatible with a system that puts so much power in one man’s hands. Colonel Qaddafi’s aides looked alarmed. The question was not translated and the event was over." (Above: you see Qadhdhafi democratically conversing with U.S. political scientist Benjamin Barber and British sociologist Anthony Giddens.)