It is so sure that the rebel are taking over strategically but what comes next after the falling of a dictator.

RAVIN: are you serious where have you been , if you think what gaddifi has done to his people you are as bad as him.

Where was the scud fired from?

Ravin, just FYI, the aid promised is all Gaddafi regime assets that were frozen under UN sanctions. Neither the US or EU are paying anything out of their pockets.

Let's hope the international community will also help the Syrian people to be free. All peoples deserve democracy.

@PeterT lybians wont see new corruption, disinformation is and will stay part of lybians life

@care Its no "hidden" agenda, its all about the oil and the stability of our own economics,...would you like to pay for something where you are getting nothing (back), or would you like to pay more your fuel?

@PeterT I agree with you about that people were a key factor in the decision to intervene by the western countries, their unbroken will to fight this regime, even if it should take lifes. They started the protests after they saw that it possible to bring an arabic dictator to fall like in egypt or tunisia. They saw their chance in this "arabic spring" and begun to act together after waiting decades for this chance. But the western countries joined in when they saw that gaddafi was seriously violating international law by assasinating people in a clearly amoral way that goes below a border of repression our civilized countries could not tolerate anymore in front of their own citizens, in a way they would not want their own citizens to act without being punished AND when they saw that a longterm civil war is uprising by those determined rebels which would destabilize oil production from lybia even more than a NATO airsupported shortterm civil war, where the chances for the rebels are high enough to bring gaddafi to fall. The revolution probably would not have failed, it would have taken far to long. Of course gaddafi gave the western countries enough arguments why we now can sell it as a service to worldwide democracy itself and as a help to lybian people, so im as well proud that we chose this way, which now seems to be the right one as lybians hopefully! soon will have a working democratic system. PS: I grew up in a communism, so i know how it is like to not being able to discuss your system of goverment without going at least to prison for 5 to 15 years and none of your relatives gets a better job than working in a coal mine. Of course the people have to first build a huge majority of active citizens to break this to receive democracy as they then deserve it. I congratulate the lybians to this effort and hope they will not get repressed by any "rebel leaders" again.

I am sorry but the wests intentions are clearly obvious, if the west is so pro human rights and free will and against crimes against humanity, then why they dont go to Syria where thousands are getting slaughtered. Which if I may say so is far worse then Libya. Wait a second I know the reason no Oil in that country.

Every now and then I read a comment about the west helping us because of the oil, SO WHAT? did we shatter your dream world and brought you to reality?
The thing is, the oil has been our curse and bless, right now and only now it started to look like a bless, with Ghadaffi, it was a curse, he spent it left and right and nothing IN Libya, now, even if the west starts getting more percentage of oil, the rest is will be ours, in numbers that is a jump from 7% of the oil to the Libyan people to 50, 60, 70, 80%.. Worth it for us, and I hope it makes the west happy, and with regards to Syria, My heart is with the people, but Gadaffi did not have Iran and the delicate situation in close Iraq an Lebanon as card to play with.. too bad for him and too bad for our Syrian brethren.