After Qaddafi

Foreign Affairs ^ | Nov/Dec 2012 | Dirk Vandewalle

[PieterCasparzen]

The September 11 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans during an attack by an angry mob on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has concentrated the world's attention on the problems of post-Qaddafi Libya. The riots showcased both the power of radical Islamist militias and the inability of the government in Tripoli to provide security and maintain order across the country. Lawlessness and corruption are pervasive, and fundamental questions about the structure and operation of Libyan political and economic institutions remain unanswered. None of this, however, should obscure the fact that the larger story about the new Libya is surprisingly positive. The worst-case scenarios commonly predicted a year ago have not emerged, and there are actually grounds for guarded optimism about the future.

A year and a half ago, Libya seemed as though it would be the country where the Arab Spring came to an end. After popular uprisings peacefully unseated dictators in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, the Libyan revolution turned into a protracted, bloody civil war. Even when the rebels, with Western assistance, finally toppled the regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi in August 2011, many obstacles lay ahead. Libyans had little sense of national identity and no experience with democracy. The country was led by a transitional government that did not have a monopoly on the use of force. To build a functional state, Libya would have to overcome the legacy of over four decades of dictatorial rule, during which Qaddafi had prevented the development of real national institutions...

[PieterCasparzen]

Un-be-lievable.

Council on Foreign Relations - this is the organizational face of the people who are "guiding" the White House, the State Department, the CIA, Congress, USAID, etc., and our good friends at MEPI, the Middle East Partnership Initiative of the State Department.

Elites need to be regulated - just like lobbyists - by Congress.

Of course, independent of that, they need to be exposed to the public.

Remember, nobody elected them. Nobody monitors them. No one outside of elite and government power circles has any idea what they're doing.

[PieterCasparzen]

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Phase II, the Middle East: From Here to Eternal Tyranny

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[Digger]

Remember, nobody elected them. Nobody monitors them. No one outside of elite and government power circles has any idea what they're doing.

Hello! Banana Republic.

[MestaMachine]

“Remember, nobody elected them. Nobody monitors them. No one outside of elite and government power circles has any idea what they’re doing.”

Or who they are. Congress is as much involved with cfr as everyone else you mentioned. Fox overseeing the henhouse? Won’t work.