Btw, there is a very good reason why France and severl neighboring countries are anxious to stop kadhaffi. The revolution started as an internal matter and the UN had no jurisdiction. This was similar for Tunesia and Egypt for example. The problem is that he has lost enough control that half the country is revolting, yet he still controls the military.

At this point, the internal situation has gotten so bad that hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing to neighboring countries. It has gotten so bad that those regions are at risk of becoming destabilized themselves, or at least swamped with hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing, and nothing left to lose. This puts the entire region at political and economical risk.

It is this what has the UN allowed to take action, and it is this why those neighboring countries are taking action. If they don't, then they face an invasion from the refugees when the massacre begins in earnest, and that will destabilize their own country and put it at risk.

It is true that the US has no bone in this conflict, but the UN and especially the neighboring countries (of which France is one) have solid reasons for this action, aside from the humanitarian angle of not allowing the population of benghazi to be shelled to death.