I think that resources could be better spent at home, making our government more efficient and our civilization stronger. They may call this action humanitarian, but it sure looks like another display of military power to me. We spend far too much money on various war efforts when there are so many domestic problems that need to be solved... and I don't mean giving bankers Get Out of Jail Free cards.

 While i agree that this is unlikely to achieve anything meaningful, and as much as i hate to back Obama, i believe it would be a bad move to not support the uprisings going on in the Arab world these days. 

 We in the west love to preach about our high ideals when it comes to human rights, but really the only human rights we really care about are ours.  In America we preach the virtues of freedom, as long as its out freedom were talking about. God knows we couldn't risk spending money ( which we all know damn well is just going to be pissed away anyway ) to support an uprising against a brutal tyranny, which i might mention has been acting against our interests for decades.

 Europe is no better. They talk of peace because and rant against the use of any military force by any western power, but have no problem ignoring genocide in Africa or getting in bed with their own favorite dictators  ( usually the same ones we do).

 So i say good for the west for growing a pair ( of testicles ). Sure were gonna spork it up like we usually do, but at least we did something .

My concern is about what is going to replace these dictatorships.  The Muslim Brotherhood is the organization that spawned Hezbollah and was where Al Zawahiri came from (Osama's second in command).  They've had their hand in these uprisings, and they are not a peaceful organization at all.  If they are using all this as a cover to make power grabs it's bad news all around.  In addition to that, a lot of these uprisings have had mixed in with them "death to America, death to Israel" sentiments.  I'm all for freedom and individual liberty, but Islam does not have a great track record in these areas and I'm hesitant in putting any hope that liberty is going to blossom as a result of this.  Any positive outcomes in the short term may fall to radicalization in the long run.  The ultimate result may be trading a few selfish tin-pot dictators for a much more radical and dangerous ideologically-driven threat.  That's not a situation that bodes well for anyone.  It's not good for the US, or Israel, or Europe, or Africa, and certainly not for the people that just participated in some rather revolutionary activity.  Trading one oppressor for another is never an improvement.

I'm a bit peeved about the situation in Africa as well.  How much talk has their been about the recent massacres in the Ivory Coast?  Not much air time on those.  Muslim uprisings hit the news, but Christians being massacred in the thousands nobody wants to hear about, or at least, Western media never wants to report it.  Murder is murder, I don't care who's doing the dying.  Sadly, I think the only reason anyone cares about what's going on in Egypt, Libya, etc, is oil.  Rwanda, Darfur, etc, produce nothing of value for the West, so why should anyone care, right?  I hate the media.  Hate hate hate! 

Right. Wars cost money. Something has to make it worth going in. Human life is abundant, oil is not.