I am sick and tired of these throw-away lines; the sort featured above: "why aren't we marching on half of the Arab League." If we accept your logic - and we don't - wouldn't you have just rendered your second question unequivocally redundant? I believe so, in which case, where do you really stand? Either we should march on half of the Arab League, regardless of numeration, or we shouldn't, again irrespective of the hitherto 'tally'. I don't believe intervention has been, should be, or could ever be contemplated in such a way by any nation, including the US.

Interventional policy in general may be argued for or against, or somewhere in the middle, as with most policies, but surely more sensible questions should precede those you list above. Why not evoke a more serious discussion and one that continues to be overlooked by the so called libertarians: why do Russia and China so frequently abstain or completely misuse their, in my opinion, totally unworthy standing as permanent UN member states? Why do their biased, cynical and self-interested policies fail to even draw mention, let alone criticism from the aforementioned demographic?

The reality is that the humanitarian crisis facing Libya was more urgent than others; as was eventually recognized by UN members (or at least the decent ones). This meant that, with a coalition, the force of the democratic and free world was, and continues to be, brought to bear on another psychopathic dictator with the correct and lawful international mandate and backing.

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The big mistake of course was that this action wasn't undertaken sooner; notwithstanding, the requisite invitation had to be submitted.

My only sincere hope is that this continues...a fourth, fifth, sixth, or twentieth time in the Middle East - or elsewhere  - until every single tyrannical, theocratic, deluded  dictatorship is exterminated and replaced with governments of the people, by the people. But this must be accomplished with all UN member states footing the bill and all UN member states spilling their military's blood. Then we might be more honorably positioned to criticize only US foreign policy.

Don't read the above post; it is a pile of manure. 

Hitchens said that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in god were correct", but that "an antitheist, a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion. -unilife alan shortall