Reply #27: Not really

[Spider Jerusalem]

the left is opposed because they can't see any difference to Iraq. After all, Libya has oil, right? And Bush made a great show out of going to the UN, didn't he? So it must be exactly the same! (Even though it isn't at all.)

Republican opposition is probably more rooted in the fact that it's a UN-sanctioned action (right-wingers hate the UN) and that Obama is the president who approved it; if a Republican president had intervened in Libya unilaterally with no UN support, in a belligerent "America, fuck yeah!" manner, what do you think those Republicans who are presently opposed to the intervention would be saying?