Analyst's note:  Believing that the current foray into Libya could lead to disaster, with Islamists in control of oil wealth, we must ask "Why attack Libya but ignore other despotic regimes?"  Some are rightfully asking if this U.S. action in Libya is actually helping the Islamists. 

"[....] there is no organized institution around which successful rebels can ultimately coalesce except Islam. Qaddafi allowed no alternative institutions. The instruments of liberty have never taken root in the barren earth of Libya. Its people have no understanding of what it takes to make freedom work or visceral feeling for what it really means. In the chaos that will inevitably follow the fall of Qaddafi, institutions will quickly emerge to bring order. Order will be achieved either through another strongman or by mullahs offering the same deceptive way forward that so seduced Iran.

[....] we also know is that the insurgents are using the weapons employed by the Taliban and al Qaeda in their various chapters. In a nation as locked down as Libya, where would insurgents get Kalashnikov rifles and ammunition if not from sympathetic foreign powers of a decidedly non-western variety? We certainly know that Iran has fanned the flames of rebellion among a restive Libyan public. Why do we now believe our influence will be greater than it is in any aftermath?

[....] the last thing we need is another oil rich Islamic Republic of six million people and another safe haven for Iranian imperial ambitions.