“What Post-Qaddafi Libya Has to Learn From Afghanistan”

Michael Semple, who has spent more than two decades in Afghanistan, argues in Foreign Affairs that although Libya and Afghanistan share undeniable similarities in terms of their liberation movements, Libya is unlikely to follow in the footsteps of Afghanistan and descend into “war-torn” madness. “The Libyan revolutionaries seem to have as many guns as the Afghan ones did nearly two decades ago,” writes Semple, “but they appear scrupulous in their public dealings and are thus far less menacing. The central question is this:

“However different Libya and Afghanistan may be — in geography, in the makeup of their people, in their languages, in a thousand other ways — might such direct links mean they will share similar fates? Libyans have a real chance of forging a different future from the one that followed the several ‘liberations’ of Kabul.”

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