The pro-war left in Australia and intervention in Libya http://enpassant.com.au/?p=9617

...To believe Western imperialism will intervene to protect a revolution is sheer madness. It might intervene, but never for that reason. Any intervention will be an attempt to destroy the revolution and its possible development in a direction that serves the interests of the Libyan masses. The people of Libya have two enemies who until a month ago were pals – Gaddafi and imperialism. Their struggle is a struggle against both. Allying with imperialism will defeat their own liberation. In Egypt and Tunisia the US did not have to intervene physically because the partial revolutions there have not destroyed the old regimes, only their leaders. In Libya the civil war does not make this managed change an option. The pro-war left’s talk of saving the lives of revolutionaries is a smokescreen for defeating the revolution’s potential and keeping it in safe pro-Western hands...