I love this Libyan civil war, it has more ironies than Catch -22. Gilbert and Sullivan could have made an opera out of this one.

The Yanks and the Euros want to help a bunch of people who only six months ago were cheering on Ghaddafi and his Lockerbie bomber mate who murdered Yanks and Euros. These Libyan rebels are no friends of ours. One rebel character even said that he had no problem with “infidel” nations bombing Ghaddafi. For those who do not know what ‘infidel” means, it is the Arab equivalent of “nig-ger”. Hey, up yours too Abdul. I hope Ghaddafi has something unpleasant lined up for you.

Now Marjorie Cohn writes that intervening in Libya is “illegal”. Yup, it sure is. And the last time that the UN claimed the same thing a million Hutus in Rwanda got chopped to pieces with machetes right in front of the UN soldiers sent there to protect them.

“ Sorry old chap, we can’t stop the Tutsis from chopping you and your kids to mincemeat because the law is the law. Our job is to stand here behind the wire of our compounds and watch them do it.” I suppose that such a position is logical.

The USA and the Euros claim that they are getting involved to stop civilian slaughter, but what is going to happen if the rebels start winning and push Ghaddafi back to his strongholds where he has local support? When the rebels start doing to Ghaddafi’s civilian supporters what Ghaddafi is now doing to them, will the Yanks and the Euros start bombing the rebels for “humanitarian reasons?”

Maybe then the “No Blood for Oil” brigade will finally crawl out of their crevices and show the world how morally superior they are.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Arab League, who’s members states creak under the weight of weaponry, and who are more than capable of removing Ghaddafi themselves, do what Arabs always do. They sit back and do nothing while criticizing the people who are doing something

Gaddaffi is a terrible piece of work, and while the rebels are an unknown quantity, it would be difficult to be worse, at least they are not targeting civilians.

The positive for the British and Americans is at least they get to take a few pot shots at the instigators of the Lockerbie massacre and test fire some of their new toys.