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ok listen. live. below the welcome to cross talk and peter little you know specious beginnings libya's national transitional council has announced the country's liberation from the could die off the behavior ship what kind of country libya will now become is anything but clear will it be ruled under islamic law and will the rule of law prevail in the wake of gadhafi skilling and is national unity an illusion with so many factions vying for power live. their

lives. to cross-talk libya's future i'm joined by daniel serwer in washington he's a professor real lecturer at john hopkins school of advanced international studies also in washington we have paul coring he's a foreign correspondent for the globe and mail and in new york we go to ted rall he is a journalist political cartoonist and author of the anti-american manifesto all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want to me very much encouraging but first what are libya's prospects moving forward oh you as you mentioned in the beginning the road ahead of libya is anything but clear and i dare say it is all because of diplo city duplicity which has a company and the death of moammar gadhafi as well as the entire lived in campaign as the media continues to chew over the ghoulish details of the supposed leader steps we're taking back to the history of libya's ties with the west which revealed the democracy and humanitarianism were really on the agenda from a time when cut off he was branded the mad dog of the middle east to a period when his relations with the west warmed and all of the elections were

absolved by pricey defensible oil deals this is what senator mccain had to say about libya only true here is ago ties between the united states we're taking our last turn in recent years and not long after libya had to stop. partnerships with a whole slew of western leaders the libyans rose in defiance of gadhafi israel and the west flushed the responsibility to protect card and launched a nato mission in support of that uprising seven months later the mission is complete the manhunt for gadhafi drawing to a close by these very bad balls of the west has helped to arm we came we saw god. now there's much talk about the future that's basis libya where there will be able to preserve its domestic unity elect a government that can show itself to be different from the barbarity which has marked the rebels' recent actions and finally avoid being doled out to foreign stakeholders there are very many competing elements of the t.n.c. and different political philosophies i hope those of play there to the democratic

way otherwise the alternative is some ghastly descent into war when you say it was the hate for gadhafi which coalesced libya's fractious forces perhaps it is for the fear of seeing a country apart at the ground to see chairman stuff we'll promise on sunday tonight we be under the law of sharia and we'll just have to see how conducive to democracy well let's talk about democracy first i want to go to chad what kind of democracy can you possibly make in libya that is just offered a civil war like this it hardly has any state institutions whatsoever. well obviously anybody who claims to be able to predict the future of this new regime would just be telling lies and making up stories but that said you know this is going to be a for medical challenge we're not even really sure if democracy is what the t.n.c. has in mind now that they've taken power and certainly their. origins suggest that

it's not necessarily in the cards but certainly even if they do they are serious about forming a coalition of all the various factions and tribes and political factions that predated the end existed during the forty two year reign of more market offie there's no telling where this is going to go it is just so hard to cobble together such of vast country and i think a lot of people are unaware of exactly how big libya is and how fractured it is it's not going to be in a zakk parallel to iraq but i think we can see certain parallels ok pollack how does a country like libya that really doesn't have really many state functions i mean it's it was all based on one man and his family for forty two years i mean don't they have to work on state building before they start building democracy or can you build a democracy without you know. you know i don't think you can and i think perhaps there's a tendency in. the media and outside observers kind of see democracy is something that gets installed or built almost overnight you know societies in transition even

in the twenty first century that that's a. difficult arduous process and at this stage libya needs sort of civic civil society peace. the beginnings of economic renaissance democracy maybe a peace and it may be a slowly growing peace that starts early but that there's no likelihood of an immediate democracy any more than there's a likelihood of an immediately functioning economy this is going to take a long time progress is going to be slow it will be there will be said backs the nightmare scenarios exist as well ok well that isn't so very optimistic daniel if i can go to you what do you think about building a democratic state with respecting the rights of all with this alleged it looks very clear from the video that it's being it's been put on the you tube and elsewhere of the murder of khadafi i mean this is a national transition council getting off to

a good flooding there. i'm much more hopeful than my colleagues are i've been in libya i've talked with the libyans they're not going to accept another dictator. i don't think there's any reason why they should accept another dictator it is a long hard arduous road to democracy but they've laid out a road map in their constitutional framework document it's much clearer than what had been laid out in tunisia which just successfully held its first elections it's much clearer than what has been weighed out in egypt the current leadership has made it clear that it will not run for a future office and frankly libya has vast resources not only the oil and gas in the ground but the money in western banks can feel it is going to finance the next regime in libya so there are no guarantees here let me be clear this is

a long an arduous road but i think there's a good chance that libya can go down that road it should do it carefully it should do it slowly it shouldn't rush anything but you know the killing of can are free from westernized was extremely brutal and murderous and we saw a legal as well probably under international law by you what did you leave there long do you understand illegal is where i am i don't think that you can i don't think you can hold your transitional council responsible for what was brutal. murder and made in fact be a war cry but i mean let's let's be clear here this is this is the end of a conflict and it's pretty clear that. there's lots of the fighting factions were only barely within the chain of command so i mean i think to focus on

without defending what. seems to be a murder and a war crime but this time how to paint the entire transitional effort with that it's unfortunate it's terrible. and the murder of protest would also is probably quite convenient isn't it if i go to you can't i mean i guess we won't hear a lot about lockerbie we won't hear a lot about rendition and we won't hear about other things that the bush administration and obama administration had to do with of war on terror with the passage of their temples and oranges are mainly going to be good going to review they will say it's ok it's not forget the role of the united states in this in what essentially was the murder of could up after all this was a drop american drone plane that attacked his convoy alongside a french war warplane and these two and so really this was a joint french nato us murder khadafi the fact that he was technically alive as he

got out as he scrambled out of his convoy hardly negates the role of the united states in his murder and he would not have been murdered had that airstrike not occurred so this is this is a this goes part and parcel to the assassination of osama bin laden in pakistan the obama administration's enemies have a way of just being disappeared and dumped into anonymous graves and obviously you can't help but ask yourself if there are not a bunch of inconvenient questions that would be asked at a war crimes trial at the hague that perhaps the big powers would rather not see just what do you think about that paul and you could probably do these. trial ok paul first and then daniel tolerance than if you were tara cleo you one you posed that sort of thing rhetorical all you want you can say you know could actually it still be in power if there hadn't been a united nations security council mandate i mean but what you're trying to do

through what you're trying to do is hang on what you're trying to do is so. the entire process by stringing together a bunch of things and saying you know. administration is somehow responsible for the deaths of all these people and you can make that argument but you're not going to find any support for me on it daniel you want to jump in there but i mean a drone plane is not a so i think i think this argument about this calling of the killing of khadafi the. the military action against his convoy is murder is just nonsense it's not murder in any body's terms i be glad to see you don't but don't throw some signals are designed you know if you can start drones are designed to kill it's just a nation there was no to clear our designs little you know people and their military was not at war with libya it was an assassination that was going to take a foreign leader who could have been captured alive. i do wonder if you're smarter

than you. i beg to differ i'll beg to differ on that subject i just don't think there's any sign that there's a war crime involved here i don't think it's murder i think it's it's part of an ugly process that we call war the murder was in the ambulance so far as i can tell by young libyans and you know maybe he should be he should be held responsible for that but i just don't think that the attack on the convoy is ago in the selfish never the big i am and i i don't believe anybody will ever prosecuted that way. all right gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that show continue our discussion on libya stay with r.d. . laing can. still. come up to the.

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is could going to take a long time to disarm this country if it's ever going to happen at all and yeah you know i think that's very true and i think there's two elements to. this sort of fact that everybody in libya is armed. the first one is as you say there's a you know unless people are are satisfied quickly and that's hard to do then it's very easy to bring in dissatisfaction people of put up with you know shortages of food and water and electricity and all the rest of it in the middle of the uprising in the rebellion but very very quickly there will be the man's for normality and in the absence of normality in the absence of power in the absence of salaries in the absence of that sort of thing it will be very very easy to have sort of armed factions taking on each other trying to seize think that that's aspect one and that's dangerous than up the second one is a far more difficult. danger to measure and that is.

arsenals include some very modern very sophisticated weaponry in particular thousands maybe as many as twenty thousand surface to air shoulder fired missiles and that of course is the is the. weapon of choice for any radical group anywhere any terrorist organization the ability to take down civilian airliners and or military aircraft with these shoulder fired weapons is very dangerous. and nobody knows where they are all right would you want to jump in there daniel. yes they did they i think it's very important to look at the record here and the record of the national transitional council is that it successfully made the arms disappear from benghazi within a couple of months of the revolution there and the way it did that was to was to

ensure people security i was in tripoli last month there were a lot of guns on the street but there were also some policeman and the situation was really settling down and going to a big celebration of martyrs square lots of women and children out in the evening for that celebration the way you get rid of the guns in the hands of the public is to ensure security and i think the n.p.c. has a good record on that the question of this. is there and using the right on that all right tell you want to jump in there just because we saw the same exact situation in afghan. we saw the same exact situation in afghanistan where. everybody has weaponry certainly it's possible to build a civil society out of a heavily armed society the united states guns for every man woman and child in it and yet you know the streets are not are not running with blood so clearly it's

possible but that said we are talking about it the basic need first law in order is charged with one for the new libyan government and that if they can provide that then they're going to be able to move on to the next step which is rebuilding the economy and really building up some political civil society and maybe some form of representative democracy later comes later but you know afghanistan people are still waiting for a law and order ten years after the invasion that's the kind of thing that they don't want to see in libya when you think nato still has a role here i mean as a result of the united nations security council nine hundred seventy three it shows a side in the civil war the national transitional council do you think that if the national transition council in its current form gets in trouble that nato will continue to support it against the three factions that could rise up in the next two weeks or months in libya is like we've all agreed this country is awash with weapons and there's a lot to fight for and one of them is oil. well you know i don't think so i don't

actually think there's a nato role there and i think of the mistake of nato thought there was one but i do think there's a role for libya's neighbors and for nations in the area libya is going to need lots of help there's no question that this country is rich and it has the resources to provide. excellent living in a fine economy for its people but that's not going to happen overnight and it's going to be fundamentally important for other arab nations and european nations and america frankly to be there and be able to provide that kind of everything from technical support as you get oil fields running again to. to perhaps aid in setting up. say in civil society well you know there will be limits for house and you know the safety in trying to build nations around the world and can you give me one example where it works why would it work in libya well you know there are

places where it works and i'm not just talking about if you look at places like east timor where frankly the australians took the lead it's slow it takes a long time people need to sort of dig in for a generation they need not to be seen is interfering they need to help you need to not do the kind of things like we've seen in haiti where a outside countries bail out every five years or even other mass and i agree they're doing it and if there is nobody i think it is really as it would be you know twenty rigs in the words doesn't work there are plenty of examples where doesn't work there's no point being just sort of miserably pessimistic either you can look at the play well i mean has work why should be pessimistic there's so much oil there go ahead ted i mean it's worth fighting hard to. it's it's well it's hard to go wrong being pessimistic you're usually right when you are so it's worked out for me for a long time. unfortunately you know i think that you know going back to the original question i think that the nato coalition would not hold together for that

for a mission that would involve siding with one faction in a civil war it's one thing to to do what they did at this point to try to see to look at t.n.c. seize power essentially replaying what happened in the fall of two thousand and one in afghanistan when the nato essentially served as the air force for the northern alliance which allowed the northern alliance to seize kabul and take over the country by this is exactly what they did in two in two thousand and eleven in libya but we're not going to see it that seems easy that's linear that's something that the french and the and the italians and the americans can get behind but once the spoil for the oil starts it's going to be a whole different matter ok let's bring up another issue that a lot of people talk about is not easy answers are i think again you know i actually you can answer that i want to talk about these lawmakers a card that everyone likes to bring up. in connection style kind of except maybe you'll go ahead. i think the interesting thing about the state building process in

libya is that it's being led by libyans who haven't asked for needle help who have will accept some help from the europeans for america countries from the united states but they are the ones designing and is their program and to me this makes an enormous difference it seems to me with libyans in the lead you have a much better chance for success than if this were an external intervention ok i mean well how do you feel about the members of the how long will that last economically ok well i was i'd like to look at really the transition council itself because i mean there's still a lot of really murky figures there i mean people that are don't have very good attitudes towards the american cia because of rendition i mean ties alleged ties to al qaeda and what you know will be the flavoring of islam in the country it moves forward i mean we heard on sunday they know there's going to be a lot of peppering of that maybe that's just to keep people on board but i mean is

this building a democracy or you know these people going to be elected i mean where is the vetting process here i mean kentucky has gone fine but where do we go from here ted what do you think about that. the vetting process is called elections in a revolution you don't want the very to the guy and he's the guy there. in a revolution or in a revolution there is no there is no election whoever strongest and manage to kill their opponents is the de facto leader so whether if these people are ruffins or not worst of the libyan people are stuck with them the real question is going to happen in the next stage economically you know libya is a rich country if and when it can extract its high valued crude oil out but if it doesn't have the capital to do it themselves which it doesn't seem like they will if they are going to need to rely on foreign oil concerns leave the french and the italians to have most of the concessions and got involved essentially as a quid pro quo in this conflict so that's where the current where the problem of

its foreign exploitation and influence come into comes into play as we saw in iraq going back to the one nine hundred twenty s. and if the thing is that as long as libyans are in charge things might be ok but libyans aren't going to be in charge if they can't control their own resources when he leaves it so far. you know i mean. you know so far to live in people with you know plenty of mistakes and plenty of difficulties for a very long summer as this sort of tag bunch of fighters got themselves organized and got themselves together and you're quite correct with the lie that he is a clan of data support right biggs well as well that absolutely absolutely and and just as the american revolution had a lot of outside support too you can try and smear the libyan air first before it gets under way but the reality. is our front not the libyan effort. so far the

libyan people have handled this very well i think they've got an even chance of continuing to handle it well. it's it's premature to prejudge them i think i think history is a very i think i think it's history shows it shows a lot of reason to be worried i mean you can't really take over another country with foreign assistance and then claim that you have full power and look at the northern alliance in afghanistan to do that touchy dominated factions took over but they've never been able to close the deal the same thing happened and now with she had dominated iraq installed by the united states you know history shows that really in civil war you have to let the factions the the indigenous factions fight things out to a conclusion and that did not happen here and there was a lot of foreign interference and so we don't know if the benghazi based rebels can

govern this country and bring in and form some form of coalition that will be able to govern and german we've run out of care and there's literally just starting to be many thanks my guest today in washington and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are keep so you next time remember rastafarians. taking the stand.