A nice right-wing view of the world right there.
Steiner and Tolga do have a point there. You have to view every uprising in each country on it's own merits. And I really wonder what will happen to a culturally divided country as Libya. Can they unite as one or are there just a load of opportunist bidding their time to fight for control among the lines of Somalia tribes/gangs.
Of course Nato will want to prevent that to happen, because Libya has something that Somalia does not, OIL!
So although Stefan is very cynical imo, he may be right about an upcoming oil-trade program.
Oil might enrage many people. But how about uranium? Any resource trade, with political reasons is outrageous. But obviously, NATO wants something there. So they might endorse certain candidates, which would suit their agenda or just willing to negotiate. I just hope that things can be more balanced.
That the NATO leaders true intention is simply listening to domestic voices to send aid to Libya to win cheap votes in the next election (although it proved to be long/5 months and costly).
I take it that Stefan is talking from the moral point of view (from which, he is right).
BTW, there is LA Times there... it is quite okay IMO.