He really needs to take some rhetoric classes.

You bet. The guy doesn't have a hope of becoming a convincing long-term dictator without it. :)

The same insane or amphetamine fueled rhetoric, but a well organized, well trained, fiercely loyal army, he could well be dictator for years yet.

It says something that when people loyal to the insurrection took over the power plant to supply Benghazi, the quality of power supply improved. Its not just the fact that army units are defecting ~ its also that it could be that the units that defect will be higher quality fighting forces with better esprit de corps than the ones who's to officers retain their loyalty to the regime.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.