Civil War in Libya

[PanzerJaeger]

It is inevitable that such regimes will fall. The question is if we want the people who come into power afterwards to hate us for supporting the oppression.

I'm not sure that we have much choice in the matter.

Why on earth would the deciding factor on whether this is a good thing or not be whether it benefits us?

I'm not discussing the objective goodness or badness of the situation, only its realistic outcomes – both in the individual countries and in the West. I'm not optimistic that these revolutions will yield actual representative democracies, and it is hard to conceive of an outcome that will be as favorable to the West as the old order. Hopefully I am wrong.