As all of this went on, I tried to imagine what ordinary Libyans might make of it.

Before, maybe, I could get a scholarship to study overseas, but ordinary Libyans haven't been able to do that since the 1980's.

Qaddafi's power has for a long time relied on the docility of ordinary Libyans.

Both migrants said ordinary Libyans sometimes mistreated other Africans, but they were confident that the government would protect them.

Many ordinary Libyans will agree.

Though the Africans provide cheap labor, ordinary Libyans never shared their leader's enthusiasm for their poor neighbors.

Anything to let ordinary Libyans LIVE and in peace.

My main problem with Milne's article is that it robs ordinary Libyans of agency.

So many ordinary Libyans have sacrificed so much not to live that way.

Many ordinary Libyans have also expressed surprise at the policy.