Absolutely

No American Ground Troops

This NYTimes article posted all over MSNBC today says it all:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42245106/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

We are fighting Libya for the commercial interests of mostly oil company executives who feel extorted by him. It's all about money. It's not about Human Rights, humanitarian impulses- that is what is sold to people to convince them to send in their sons and daughters to lose their limbs. This is about oil companies complaining its too expensive to do business there because the guy is a crook. It's a Kleptocracy- he puts too much a surcharge premium on his country's resources and keeps it all for his family. -OK, so now we are clear.
Thanks for being honest. I agree making US oil companies pay for terrorist acts in kickback schemes is morally repugnant. But does it justify our killing off his family and anyone who supports him? How many people do we get to kill to oppose the kleptocracy? As many people as were in the Pan Am Lockerbie jet?

How many other countries, Arab or European do we get to throw their sons and daughters in front of grenades and African mercenaries in the interest of American commerce?

No one told any American company they had to do any business in Libya. Generally smart companies do foreign risk analysis and decide which countries and companies they do and don't want to do business with on various risk analysis and it if is too expensive to do business there- don't. Just like the reported cell company that didn't want to get into a contract with Khadaffi's son. You can choose who to do business with. Cancel your oil leases. Get it somewhere else.
You don't get to kill all the people in the government if they make life too expensive. Take your ball home and go play somewhere else. We don't get to kill off every government that does not sign up with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Figure out some other sanction for them not doing so tied to the contracts originally.

The era of oil companies dictating our Foreign Policy has to be over. The sham and charade of putting forth pretextual UN excuses to invade countries to protect American commercial interests in the name of protecting civilians from their government after we incited the riots is pathetic and frankly, a bit disgraceful.

If the Libyan people want to share in the spoils-that's another thing. If we are mad that a foreign government put an absurd or immoral premium too high on the natural resources within their borders or their commercial contracts, don't do business there.