Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
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.
The logic is in itself vulnerable and that's why I'm not buying it.

"I'll do something but you can't know why I do".

No.