Qaddafi thus took the first step – intentional or not – toward creating a modern nation-state. The challenge now is to overcome the divisions that remain within the population – no easy task in a vast country with a sparsely inhabited interior populated mostly by ethnic minorities and reclusive tribes.
卡扎菲借此有意无意地迈出了建设现代化民族国家的第一步。现在要做的是弥合民众间存在的分歧——这在像利比亚这样一个以少数民族和隐居部落为主要人口的地广人稀的国家并不容易做到。