To enumerate these problems is not to say that Libya will inevitably succumb to them; at the same time, experience teaches that it would be foolish, for Libyans and those who will be involved in helping build their new society and polity, to be oblivious to them. Recognizing these risks is a prerequisite to creating mechanisms to reduce their severity. Yet among the difficulties involved for outsiders who seek to help is that Libyans will, quite appropriately, want to run their own affairs. They will, and should, be leery of benefactors and advisers from abroad who arrive with their own notions on what Libyans ought to choose now that they have the right to choose.