Isn't the New Libya going to be another Somali
Both Libya and Somalia have several characteristics in common: they are African coastal semi-desert and, while having a high level of linguistic and religious homogeneity (which is unusual in a continent full of conflicts between States languages ​​and creeds) their internal differences are based on tribes.
Somalia and Libya were the only colonies that Italy had before the events leading to World War II. After the war, these two countries spent all or most of the time under British administration after the fall of Mussolini in 1943 and after independence they ended under nationalist dictatorship under a powerful leader.
Colonel Gaddafi seized power in Libya on September 1, 1969 and seven weeks later, Siad Barre made a similar coup in Somalia. Libya proclaimed that itscountry was under socialist and anti-imperialist revolution linked to armed groups abroad, led the international expansion of its borders even using military means failed (to unify Libya with other Arab and African nations and Somalia seeking reimburse-majority areas of Somali neighborhood). Both adopted a flag of a single color to show their nation's ethnic unity (the Libyan was green as the banner of Islam and fertility, and the Somali was blue as the Indian Ocean that outlines).
While Barre emulated Mao and his Red Book, Gaddafi never proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and developed its own Green book combining Islam with egalitarianism. After the end of the Cold War, Gaddafi left his previous anti-Western militancy and becomes an ally of the latter against Bin Laden. In 1991 Barre, without oil, had nothing to do after the collapse of 'socialist bloc'. He was outset following internal uprisings. The Western powers did not participate in it but then U.S comes to face new local authorities charged with promoting terrorism.
In these last 2 decades, Somalia has been bled by internal conflicts exacerbated by the Great Famine. Today there is a national state and the country is divided according to different warlords and tribes: from the independent Republic of Somaliland (which includes the north, an area that recently was occupied by Italy since remained a British protectorate) to southern areas governed by Al-Shabab and other pro-Al Qaeda groups.
The Libya of 2011 is similar to post-1991 Somalia when there are many rivalries between tribes, warlords and regions (some of them have, like Somalia, its own history), which is exacerbated because there is no central authority that can replace the deposed Gaddaffi legacy, the clash between secular and religious groups, to the struggle between pro-Western Libyan, pro-Arab kingdoms and pro-Iran, and the large presence of troops and large foreign oil interests.
I am afraid that the New Lbya will soon be like Somalia.