Armchair Arab - How to cleanse Libya from Gaddafi's influence...
A big issue since the success of the Libyan revolution has been that of the ex-gaddafi regime official, bureaucrats and politicians that still retain their posts in local councils, government departments, state owned companies and Libya's diplomatic core.
This had understandably caused concern amongst the vast majority of Libyans who supported the revolution. But I feel that a realistic and practical approach as well as a wider view is required when considering how to remove these ex-regimers from the positions they hold.
**Firstly**, the notion of completely 'de-gaddafinating' the entire gov right after liberation was not realistic, it would have cause the machinery of government to freeze as well as caused a huge amount of unrest amongst the families of those gaddafi era bureaucrats that would have been purged.
**Secondly**, the belief that everyone and anyone who worked in the government under gaddafi was automatically bad is a flawed and dangerous one. Almost every Libyan has a relative or close friend who worked for the government in some way, shape or form, there was simply no way to avoid this considering what a large employer the government was. Many of these people were competent and patriotic, we can't make them simply retaining a position a crime
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