After passing a vaguely worded UN resolution, NATO, initially led by USA, has been carrying out a massive bombing campaign to aid a minority of rebels to overthrow the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his government.
There is no doubt that Gaddafi is a rotten apple. He has been responsible for training such pleasantries as Charles Taylor and his militia in Liberia, Foday Sankoh and other leaders of the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Campaore's troops who assassinated president Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, his examples go on. He has also been a critic of the US government.
And then there is OIL. Libya as the largest reserves in Africa and the ninth largest in the world(41.5 billion barrels (6.60×10^9 m3) as of 2007). Strange coincidence, especially so close to France, Britain and Italy. You can easily spot their planes dropping things over Libyan cities full of civilians. Rebels are selling oil to fund their attack against the government, NATO countries seem to be supplying weapons secretly against their own arms embargo.
So is this foreign attempt of regime change(and installing a rebel government without any democratic vote), really the way the international community should act, no matter how bad Gaddifi is? Can any country have the right to bomb another for regime change like the big mess in Iraq?
And if he is gone, who will control such a tribal and ethnically diverse land, surrounded by fundamentalists of all shades of bad??
