I can never really understand what is happening in the world till I read what the socialists say. I am not sure I really have a handle on it, but this is worth a read:
Nothing humanitarian about U.S. intervention | SocialistWorker.org:
WORLD LEADERS and their defenders in the mainstream press are praising the West’s “decisive” military action against Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, but as the long record of “humanitarian” intervention demonstrates, the governments with the ability to use force in Libya have aims and strategies that will not serve the Libyans they are supposedly there to help.