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Editor's Note: Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow, former deputy assistant Sec. of Defense, and A Line of Sight contributor Peter Brookes offers his always cogent analysis of the enormous challenges that face the Libyan people as the Gadhafi regime comes to an end. This article also appeared today in the Boston Herald.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jets to Paris this week for a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya (e.g. France, Britain), no doubt there'll be plenty of self-congratulations over the end of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year dictatorship. 

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Editor's Note: If you are looking for insightful analysis with a historical perspective as well as a window to what the future may hold for a post-Gadhafi Libya, we recommend the following excellent summary by Scott Stewart for STRATFOR.

As the experiences of recent years in Iraq and Afghanistan have vividly illustrated, it is far easier to depose a regime than it is to govern a country. It has also proved to be very difficult to build a stable government from the remnants of a long-established dictatorial regime. 

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