Disintegration - Libyan Style
To plagiarize and bastardize an old saying: Libya disintegrates as the world fiddles. UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorized countries to take "necessary action" to protect civilians from pending attack by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. NATO, seeing a potential southern security risk, engaged in a bombing campaign and enforced a no fly zone that balanced the field to allow rebellion to flourish that ended with the execution of Gaddafi. The end of Gaddafi should have ushered a new era for Libya. Or so we thought. In the four years since the dawn of the Arab Spring, Libya has become another African basket case - a failing state that is headed towards disintegration and a possible forerunner to a region that harkens back to precolonial boundaries thus ending the Westphalian state in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region and sub-Saharan Africa. Sectarian and tribal allegiances is becoming the preeminent political force instead of the nation-state. But