Have a rest on the long road

It is a long road from dictatorship to democracy. In a conference about the Arab spring (see one of my previous entries) I learned today about the phenomenon of "Elections without Democracy", which happened in all the revolutionary countries.
In Libya tensions were quite high during the last few days. And a big disappointment followed, after the decision of many governments to advise their citizens to move out from Benghazi.
I can understand the disappointment, especially as no further explanation was given, which kind of imminent threat was prevailing. It is not important anymore, as the harm is done already. And we will never find out if it was wrong or right, because obviously, now, there is hardly any foreigner left in the Benghazi area. In a couple of weeks security experts might say that they prevented a majour disaster like in Algeria. It could also be that this threat was never real, but based on rumours. However, after the security incidents that happened already in Benghazi it is better to pull out one time too often than to late.
Companies are used to that sort of game already and so far, have always come back. Similar "evacuations" happened already around the anniversary of the revolution, before the elections and before the swearing in of the government.
I like especially one tweeting Libyan, who has put as his avatar on Twitter the words."
"Don´t panic, Libya is a democracy now"