Gunbattles in Tripoli’s suburbs signal the death throes of Moammar Gadhafi’s dictatorship. Regime change is succeeding, albeit slowly and with needlessly protracted agony. The honest understand that the Libyan War of 2011 is about regime change — the termination of four decades of megalomaniacal misrule, torture, corruption, tyranny, terrorism and genuine warmongering.

Col. Gadhafi, like Iraq’s megalomaniacal Saddam Hussein, imprisoned his own country, to the benefit of favored cronies and clans. He also waged imperialist war on vulnerable neighbors, invading and occupying northern Chad, including the Aouzou Strip with its uranium mines. (Yes, he, too, dreamed of a nuclear arsenal.)

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