Patrick Basham explains why Colonel Gaddafi's death may be bad news for the Libyan revolution

1. Patrick Basham explains why Colonel Gaddafi's death may be bad news for the Libyan revolution

20 October 2011
"Today, ordinary Libyans celebrate the death of a dictator. Tomorrow, the worry for foreign governments who invested so heavily in creating a New Libya is that the time and energy spent ousting the Gaddafi regime and finally killing the dictator, himself, was the easy part. The final outcome of this latest in a decade-long series of Middle Eastern interventions is made no less unpredictable, costly, or dangerous through Gaddafi’s death."

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