Update on the last country we said we saved

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17. The transition from dictator (or king or tsar) to a more open government is rarely smooth.

That is not an argument that people should be content with their situations and accept kings/dictators as just the way life is. Historically, revolutions have often followed by chaos and crackdowns and new repressive rulers. Just ask the French who had a series of revolutions over 60 years before achieving anything like a open, representative government.

We should do more to help the Libyans through their tough "after revolution" times, but as with the French and the Russians they will have to learn to "play by the rules" rather than "rule of the gun" themselves. It will not be smooth nor quick and there will be (are) desperate times in the process.

They inherited no culture or infrastructure of democracy (just "do as you are told or else&quot ' so they have to create everything from scratch. Their will be plenty of disillusionment just as there was in France a couple of years after their first revolution. I wish the Libyans the best.