Poor US was duped

"human rights groups and some Libyan opposition leaders are asking whether the United States was duped in 2003 into propping up one of the world's most repressive regimes."

Or rather that the United States knowingly propped up one of the world's most repressive regimes so long as it went along with the US agenda in the region. When the House of Saud falls the WP will wonder whether the US was 'duped' into propping them up for generations.