Why is West really bombing Libya?

ON the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq the lessons of two disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been learned.

Despite the obvious relief for the people of Benghazi one has to question the real motives of the western powers in launching this new war and their selective intervention in the Arab peoples uprisings, which could kill many more civilians while possibly not dislodging Gaddafi at all.

While the UNSC was voting to impose a no-fly zone in Libya, at least 40 civilians were killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan in Pakistan, the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain (home of the US Fifth Fleet) were brutally suppressed by an invading US-backed Saudi army and forty protesters were gunned down in Sanaa, Yemen.