Vesten burde være mer opptatt av stater som det selv har påtatt seg ansvaret for gjennom intervensjon. Libya er ved å falle fra hverandre. I øst har separatister startet salg av olje på verdensmarkedet utenom det statlige oljeselskapet.

Hvis «myndighetene» i Tripoli vil de tillate finansieringen av separate enheter.

Rami G. Khouri i Daily Star:

In Libya, the problem has reached the point where rebel groups who seized control of oil export facilities in the eastern part of the country and have started shipping oil have now triggered an assault on them by the government in Tripoli. The government said Monday that the Libyan navy had seized one tanker that was leaving the rebel-controlled port of Sidra with $36 million worth of crude oil destined for international sales outside the control of the Libyan National Oil Company.

Rebels have seized three ports and partly control a fourth in the eastern region of the country, which had accounted for the export of some 700,000 barrels of oil per day. They have ignored government threats to bomb any ship that attempts to export oil without NOC approval. The Libyan parliament in Tripoli Monday also ordered the formation of a military force made up of regular soldiers and allied armed groups from across the country that would liberate the ports within weeks.

The rebels seek political autonomy for eastern Libya and a share of oil revenues that previously had been managed by the central government. They have also said that they would view any attack on the tanker as “a declaration of war.”

This is just the most dramatic example of the problems that Libya has experienced in keeping the country together since the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Work continues on writing a new national constitution and having it ratified by popular ballot. However, as the oil export incidents show, it will be rough going to achieve a consensus over this from Libyans in the three principal regions of Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenaica in the east and Fezzan in the south.