Civil War in Libya

[Hax]

Personally, I think that the best that can be done by the West is to keep completely hands off,

People are being massacred. Hosni Mubarak didn't ask the air force to bomb Cairo. Ben Ali didn't order his armed forces to shoot protesters by the hundreds. I cannot believe how we can stand aside and pretend that it's in our best interest to do nothing. At least decide on a no-fly zone for Tripoli to prevent mercenaries from entering the country.

Is this how we spread democracy?

Well, I think it's partly wanting to see the Arab/Islamic powers as crippled as possible, and partly a need to resist our natural inclination to send in the paratroopers to "restore order".

Why do we want that? Arab now equates with Islamic? Since when? It didn't when Mubarak opened the Suez Canal for Israel or when Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel? Now is the time to turn our backs on the Arab world? We should've done that way earlier.

There's a great possibility for a democratic society to function for the first time ever in the Arab world and you prefer to see it as crippled as possible? Nice.