I believe the Western Democracies may very well have been suckered by the Ruskies, the Chicommes, and maybe even the Arab League, each for its own vested and mischievous reasons
NATO has now merged with the American led ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in their air and ground military insertion into the Libyan Civil War on the side of the anti-Go-daffy crowd. Since U.N. Resolution 1973 was passed on March 18, anonymous “rebels”, or “protesters”, or “insurgents”, or “freedom fighters”, or “pick-your-own-humanitarian-target-constituency” have been violently jostling with the forces of Muammar Go-daffy for control of the oil rich, Arab, Muslim, and sovereign Islamic Republic of Iran. As Joe Biden would say, “This is a really big (expletive deleted) deal!”