Originally Posted by
tcaudilllg
Did some research. Like most Mideast nations, Libya is tribal at its core. Libya is the nation of the Bedouin nomads, from whom Gadhafi is descended. However this is only its modern identity. Unlike most nations of the Mideast, Libya is an artificial composite of three ancient civilizations. The lower civilization was based in the Sahara, and so was not significant. The other two were however, and were rivals for regional power. These nations, Tripolitania in the West and Cyrenceum in the east, had a relationship no better than that of the Hebrews to the Philistines. That's what's really going on, hence hate between the east and the west is ingrained in the country's history. As with Iraq, NATO is going in blind. It's Iraq all over again -- no, it's Lebanon.
So yeah, failed state.