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If we look at what happened in Tunisia or Libya after they got rid of their secular dictators (Gadaffi an Ben Ali), it doesn't have to be that way. They were al
by otherme123 2y ago
If we look at what happened in Tunisia or Libya after they got rid of their secular dictators (Gadaffi an Ben Ali), it doesn't have to be that way. They were also fears of them becoming islamic states, yet they didn't.
If we look at Egypt, they could become again a dictatorship.
- dyauspitr 2y agoLibya is pretty much an Islamist and borderline slaver nation now. It’s much, much worse than it was under gaddafi. Tunisia is the only place the Arab spring might have been tentatively “successful”.
- otherme123 2y agoMaybe it's as worse as with Gadaffi. "Much, much worse", I don't think so. They are going through changes, far from stable, so it's hard to say what are they or what they will become. But they are not the theocracy some announced when Gadaffi fell.
- properpopper 2y agoBut before Gaddafi was publicly executed we had a lot of negative news about Libya but now Libya is a forgotten country.
- seydor 2y agoNot to Europeans, it's immigration smuggling grounds
- ssijak 2y agoAre you suggesting that Lybia is better now for the average citizen then before or?
- DoughnutHole 2y agoArguably not, but once revolution and civil war break out you don’t really have the option of just going back to how things were. It’s certainly better than if the civil war had gone on for 13 years as it has in Syria. We also don’t know how brutal Gadaffi’s crackdown and reprisals would have been had he won. Libya’s been at peace for 4 years now, but it’s politically a mess. Syria has seen 18 times as many deaths as Libya with only 3 times the population. Anyways the question wasn’t “will Syria be better than 13 years ago” it was “will a Syria become an Islamic state” - and it’s a fact that Libya hasn’t ended up that bad in that regard.