Time will tell Andrew but I’m afraid Libya will be much worse off. I am against dictators and for strong democracy. I am not for acts of war in the guise of uprisings which have and are being instigated by other countries. You cannot topple a dictator, and then leave the country fall into anarchy. If you’re going to topple a dictatorship then you have to be willing to help in the transition to democracy. This is not happening. Libya being divided the way it is now is fantastic for the oil companies and thus is probably what the countries who sent in the foreign mercenaries probably wanted as the end result.
You cannot seriously thinking Andrew that Gaddafi was somehow toppled by some spontaneous uprising. If you do you need to do some further reading. You cannot also be of the opinion that the US/NATO/France/Britain/Qatar are helping Libya with the transition to democracy. They toppled the dictatorship and grabbed the oil but they have not helped by providing concrete assistance to developing new democracy.

Best of luck to them. Libya a very unstable country now and the everyday quality of life for people has degraded as a result. Racism is rampant in the country now, it is unsafe to travel freely in the country, everyday rights of people being eroded by new Islamic laws and for the first time in recent history Libya is saddled with debt. This was the very first thing the new transition council did in Libya. It created a central bank and issued debt. This debt will only grow and grow as rampant corruption takes place due to poor power structures and no accountability.

Ah yes, George, the Libyans were so much better off when they knew they only had to worry about Ghaddafi and his henchmen killing, torturing and disappearing them when they offered a contrary opinion, in the same way you do…

You and Petr, both enjoying the very same rights that you passively wish to deny others, by insisting that the Arab Spring could only be something fomented by the West, and that the ruling tyrants should all be left alone. – Of course, if the West did leave them alone, like in Saudi Arabia, you’d be bitching and moaning about that too. The only thing consistent with you guys is your hypocrisy.

Fweeeedom and democwaaacy.

So what you’re saying George, is that Mohamed Bouazizi, the fruit seller who immolated himself outside a local administration building in Tunisia, as a protest against being unable to get a permit to sell his produce, from corrupt officials who had confiscated his wares and who he felt were harassing him, was actually a CIA stooge, an intelligence agent? And all that back in December 2010 when both you and I were almost certainly, in the main, quiet and only passingly concerned about the repressive regimes in the Middle East. That’s about the strength of it, right?

You see the truth of it is George, that you are so partisan against the West, that if the US and its allies did persist in hanging around these countries as they found their feet in a new democratic environment, you and your ilk would be decrying it and declaring it unwarranted interference in Libyan internal affairs. You persistently try to have it both ways, but can’t. To be honest, I used to read off that hymn sheet too, but the older I get, the more I realise, for all the many and egregious evils of the West, it remains the most enlightened, tolerant, democratic and economically robust hemispheric bloc human history has known to date. You would do well to remember that it was not Communism, or the Left, that gave us the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, with the backing of its Western Allies.*

http://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/eleanor-roosevelt.html

*USSR didn’t sign up until 1975