I still remember the lead up to the NATO bombing of Libya and the lynching of Gaddafi by the “moderate rebels”. A lot of the left libs to Trots were in full support of the rebels. DemocracyNow! had on Juan “cruise missile leftist” Cole, as their regular guest on Libya, he was cheer leading non stop for Gaddafi’s ouster even up to the NATO bombing. The supposedly “independent and progressive” DemocracyNow! was no different than State Department propaganda, and they tried the same thing with Syria. Oh and Juan Cole was a CIA consultant:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/30/meet-professor-juan-cole-consultant-to-the-cia/

As usual, a lot of Trots were on the wrong side of history, but the one that struct out to me most for it’s pure absurdity was listening to a talk from the ISO (one of the bigger Trot groups, mostly middle class students, defunct now because of some sexual assault scandal). One of the speaker was some Libyan-American student, she was in full support of the rebels, but she mentioned that her parents were able to study abroad in the United States was because of Libya’s solid social programs, but hey, “freedom and democracy” so Gaddafi must go! Now there are open slave markets in Libya, gotta love that “freedom and democracy”!