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| Is this the man that can finally unify Libya? |
| 2018-10-14 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya has effectively been a failed state mired in an intractable civil war since the Libyan people have risen up against Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011. Whatever else we may wish to say about Qadaffy, he was a unifying force in a country deeply fractured along ethnic, tribal and ideological lines. A brutal and malign unifying force, but a unifying force nonetheless. The more one delves into the detail of the ongoing conflict in the country, the easier it is to lose hope that a stable and prosperous Libya might be possible at all. There are multiple power centers distributed all over the country, each with their own private militias, there are imported muscle associated with ISIS and al-Qaeda still roaming the land, despite years of Western-backed efforts to stamp them out, there are at least two separate, semi-viable state apparatuses running in parallel and claiming authority over the entire territory, complete with their own central banks and currency ‐ and, of course, there is international proxy power play, with Russia and the West backing different sides, while Arab states back different proxies on the ground. None of this suggests that anything other than endless conflict is possible. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Give him a whirl. What do you have to lose? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-10-14 13:32 |