He's stirring things up. See also this excellent interview where, near the end, the writer quite diplomatically states that "Smith is growing increasingly truculent and irascible. We’re both a bit drunk by now, and he says a few ugly things which are maybe intended as a bit of idle provocation"
http://thequietus.com/articles/07465...rview-the-fall
And to be fair it's only to do with one statement that Gaddafi made which happens to tie in with the point Smith is making, hardly his entire philosophy.