The Economist Libya So far, so pretty good Amid trepidation, the new regime is making a remarkably hopeful start Sep 10th 201 1 I TRIPOLI IN THE evening cool at a fairground on the Tripoli waterfront, giggling children chant as they spin on a merry-go-round. But theirs is no childish rhyme. Their joyful cry is the revolutionary mantra that has been echoing across the Arab world: "The people demand the fall of the regime!" A fortnight after its mercifully quick delivery from six months of harsh lock-down under the dying regime of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan capital is slowly coming back to life, if not yet to full normality. Most Libyans see the 42 years of the colonel's rule as an ordeal to be erased from memory. They are now entering something completely new, and facing it with the Page 1 1 of 4 EFTA_R1_01997992 EFTA02682742