Those b*tchin about Western nations responding to other areas such a Bahrain, Saudi etc. don't know what the hell they are talkin about!
Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain etc. are allies of the West and their conduct is, for most part, measured. Libya on the other hand has been a rogue nation since Madaffi took control. Behind the scenes they have financed/promoted all kinds of internal disputes throughout Africa pushing an openly anti-semetic and divisive agenda between Christians and Muslims. The evidence is scattered all over Africa where the Libyan regime has encouraged its neighbours to kick-out Israeli missions (which happened in Mali and elsewhere) and in his ill-conveived recommendation to split Nigeria in two! But, the examples run into their hundreds as anyone familiar with Africa would know.
Libya is one of the few countries in the world which still executes those of its citizens who oppose their government. Their intelligence service simply shoots people (locals who generally won't be missed or whose families have no recourse to international media or protection) in the head, normally at close range with pistols!
Besides Madaffi's vile internal management of Libya his involvement with other African states has caused (and seeks to create) divisions - especially between Christians and Muslims. He has financed hundreds of mosques all over the continent and regularly visits them giving speeches in which he denouces the bible as 'Western mythology which has no basis in fact' and that 'Christianity is the whiteman's ideology designed to try and control the rest of the world'.
And when Madaffi gets pissed he has a penchant for bombing aircraft. UTA 772, Pan Am 103 and several African airliners which the media is either too scared to report about or too lazy to research the evidence!
And now, when the pressure is on, he threatens to destroy civilian assets in the Med - again revealing him for the true son of a b*tch that he is!
Those talkin about our response to Saudi, Bahrain etc. should visit those places and then go live in Libya. As always, bullsh*t comments from idi*ts who have never been to the places they're writing about!
I've worked in Saudi, Yemen, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Nigeria, Chad and countless other African nations with the US government. Libya is probably the most dangerous (in terms of what they do behind the scenes) of the Middle Eastern/African countries I've visited.
My best wishes are with all the flyers who go down there - "Bomb the f*ck out of them boys!".
Have a nice day.
HM