Libya is largely a tribal society. Qadaffi was the only one who could keep it all together: keep everybody happy through compromise.

Now that it's a democracy, or trying to be, the largest tribe will take power and oppress and discriminate against the lesser tribes.  

Britain gave Zimbabwe its parliamentary system of democracy. Result: President for Life Mugabe, because his tribe will always vote for their chief, and his' is the biggest tribe. 

Democracy by itself just means that the biggest block of voters can discriminate against a visible minority block. Republicanism gives people individual equal rights. But that isn't compatible in a tribal system. And we keep on destroying their societies in the expectation that Jeffersonian democracy will emerge. Something Einstein said about repeating the same mistake over and over again producing the same result (insanity).