so you would allow a group of men of all types in Libya to be slaughtered for standing up for their freedom out of fear that there revolution could be corrupted? I see.
Just because someone is an underdog doesn't mean he's a good guy. The rebels are led by former Gaddafi enforcers. The demonstrations that sparked off the rebellion were organized by relatives of Islamists who were killed during a prison revolt where they killed 200 prison guards in 1996. They were in prison because they had organized an assassination attempt against Gaddafi that same year. Gaddafi is a secular guy like Saddam. However, if you look at news accounts over the past decade, you'll see that the vast majority of Libyan women have taken to wearing a truncated version of the burka. Now, if 9/11 hadn't happened, I'd brush this off as just another eccentric religious affectation. But 9/11 did happen, and this kind of display really sets off the klaxons.