i think everyone who's been watching things happen in libya hopes you're wrong and suspects you're not with that prognosis.
i think people in benghazi are voicing similar concerns:
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"Where are the air strikes? Why is the west waiting until it is too late?" asked Khalid el-Samad, a 27-year-old chemical engineer, who shook his finger in fury. "Sarkozy said it. Obama said it. Gaddafi must stop. So why do they do nothing? Is it just talk while we die?"
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fact is, however, that much of the delay is due to ambivalence within the obama administration that follows from already being involved in two---to my mind entirely unnecessary---military adventures thanks to the bush administration. it appears that once the admin decided to back the french/uk plan for military action, it suddenly became a whole lot easier to get the bric to abstain (along with germany)...
i think the hostility to the un is misplaced.