This might get lost in the noting/celebrating of the demise of Gaddafi; the Basque terror group ETA is hanging it up, opting to take the example of the IRA and become part of Spanish politics peacefully.
That should help Spain quite a bit, for the fear of terrorism will go down. There will still be the stray Islamic terror, but homegrown terror will decrease. If the lessons in Northern Ireland are any indication, there will still be a few ETA hard cases who want to keep at it, but they can morph into something like Sinn Fein or the Scottish and Welch nationalist parties.
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Meanwhile, Gaddafi went out feet first as promised. A trial might have been better, as this Globe and Mail piece notes, but there is a sense of closure in a corpse.
The death of Gaddafi (how may variant spellings do we have for him?) should allow Libya to move on towards a more democratic government. There is a power vacuum here, as the old regime was a one-man show. Also, tribalism can be a factor, so we could see a decentralized government with a lot of local autonomy.
The one big fear for a lot of folks is that Islamists will try to fill that vacuum. They aren't a majority, but a violent minority can often get their way.
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