Civil War in Libya

[TinCow]

If Middle East had no oil or other resources the giant ones wouldn't drool over, I could indeed be convinced of the good intentions you are advocating on behalf of them.

Sorry like your history apparently taught one, my history taught me that if France and UK walk into a bar, it's never safe there. UN/NATo or whatever, they are all failed organizations not to lack that warm feeling of helping humanity while they are commonly put into action justified so but rather defending or taking proactive measures for the giant one's needs & wants.

I wonder how history would write it had Srebrenitsa been a little Middle East well of black gold in the middle of Europe.

So, thanks but no thanks. West does not step in where actual benefits do not exist.

It is true that nations generally only intervene in foreign countries when it is in their interests. The does not make the intervention evil though. Imagine a man helping all of the homeless people in his neighborhood to find shelter and get jobs. Now imagine the man was doing it only because he owned the property and wanted to make it look nicer so he could get a higher selling price. The motive may have been non-humanitarian, but the end result is the same regardless. The French intervention in the American Revolution was entirely to damage the Old Enemy, Britain. The Americans didn't care about that motive, all we cared about was that France was helping us achieve what we wanted.

Also, the benefit to the West in Libya is stability, NOT oil. Libya has so little oil that it is essentially irrelevant to the situation. The talking heads on the news (and Gadaffi) like to point to the oil as the cause, but Libya has about 1.5% of the world's oil supply. No one would notice if it simply disappeared.