I'll believe "more pluralistic" when I see it, then see it survive some election cycles (peaceful changes of government are required proof of any democratic system).
Libya can go either way. Their economy is all oil. It will be a powerful incentive for someone else to come in and simply take the place of the current despot.
The level of insanity in belief in that part of the world makes me not hold out much hope for secular governments.
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine
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