首先，卡扎菲成功实现了自公元前七世纪希腊入侵以来一直处于分裂状态的国家的统一，统一与大片地中海盆地相连的狭长沿海地带和孤立腹地的丰功伟绩就连墨索里尼的残暴政权都没有做到。
For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.