Karena dianggap memerangi rakyatnya sendiri, negara Moammar Khadafi,
Libya, digempur pasukan AS dan NATO. Negara-negara Arab (minus Saudi
Arabia) dan sekutu Libya beraliran Kiri, misal Venezuela, mengecam serangan
tersebut dan menganggapnya sebagai intervensi dan imperialistik.
Saya kuatir alasan utama AS dan NATO tak semata urusan kemanusiaan
namun mengamankan kepentingan bisnisnya di sana. Kalau tidak salah
Libya adalah negara kedua penghasil minyak terbesar di benua Afrika.
Sejaran intervensi AS (dari wikipedia)
* President Harry S. Truman's 1947 decision to NOT intervene militarily in the Chinese Civil War.
* President Harry S. Truman's 1950 intervention in Korea to stop the Communist invasion of South Korea, at UN direction
* President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1954 decision to NOT intervene to support the French in Vietnam.
* President Lyndon B. Johnson's intervention in Dominican Republic
* President Lyndon B. Johnson's intervention in Vietnam
* President John F. Kennedy's intervention in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
* President Ronald Reagan's 1983 intervention in Grenada
* President George H. W. Bush's 1989 intervention in Panama to arrest General Manuel Noriega
* President George H. W. Bush's 1991 intervention in Kuwait to liberate it from Iraqi occupiers, at UN direction
* President George H. W. Bush's 1992 intervention in Somalia for humanitarian reasons, as directed by the UN Security Council
* President Bill Clinton's 1994 decision NOT to intervene in the Rwanda genocide
* President Bill Clinton's 1995 intervention in Bosnia, via NATO to prevent ethnic cleansing
* President Bill Clinton's 1999 intervention in Kosovo and attacks on Serbia with NATO involvement
* President George W. Bush's 2001 intervention in Afghanistan against the Taliban following the September 11 attacks.
* President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein
* President Barack Obama's involvement in enforcing the Libyan no-fly zone