After forty years of running Libya as a harshly anti-Western dictatorship, Libya’s leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi has discovered that the United States and other developed nations are willing to turn a blind eye to his continued human rights violations as long as he allows the West access to Libya’s oil and he encourages other foreign investment. In addition, Qaddafi has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Goldman Sachs and the Carlyle Group. In an attempt to make these partnerships more palatable, Qaddafi has hired the lobbying firm of former Republican Congressman Bob Livingston to pitch his country in the U.S.