Apart from being rather late, yes. But after WWII .. no.

what worries me about this is that its an internal affair. where does this outside interferance end? I mean, if there is another riot like the '92 LA riots in the US could the UN fly over a few bombs? If the German chancellor stubs their toe, should the UN throw missles at the pavement?

Can you imagine this kind of thinking during the riots in the 1960's? And the anti-war demonstrations we had in this country with millions of young people demanding the overthrow of our govt.? And then troops shooting and killing those students at the university in Ohio?

With this kind of logic...the world should have put a "Coalition" together and created a "no fly" zone over the United States and then started supplying the college student protestors with weapons and simultaneously bombing all U.S. military installations.

Guys...THAT is what we are doing to Libya. Not saying that crazy bastard shouldn't be taken out...but it's not OUR place to do that. It's none of our business. It's another country.

You mean like with Darfur, Congo, Bahrain?

so world politics isnt based on money and power? I should've known, since we all know governments are filantropists. Silly me..

Well said Robbie........ its a simple principle which should be really obvious to a lot of people but apparently not everyone gets it. I wish we, as in the UK and west generally, would adopt a non-interventionist policy.