

Bin Laden was the head of a transitional group seeking to establish Islamist control. While Al Qaeda did not have official recognition as a sovereign state, they were a well known and established organization.
The US and NATO were heavily involved in the regime change in Libya. US strikes disabled the convoy Qaddafi was in that immediately led to his capture.




One dimension:
Far Right = Ayn Rand
Far Left = some guy who just wants to live in a van down by the river and smoke weed all day