Is the decision to support the rebels in Libya about standing up for freedom and democracy? Hardly. The rush of oil firms to obtain a foothold, including some potentially dodgy dealing (see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8736496/Libya-the-minister-the-Tory-donor-and-a-contract-to-supply-oil.html), puts paid to that. According to that report, secret oil cells have been created to deal with the rebels.
Oil is the real reason for the war in Libya, as it was for the war in Iraq. Not much new, easily retrievable oil is being discovered. It is therefore a strategic geo-political aim of the West to secure existing oil deposits. That is why there is clamour for democracy in recalcitrant Libya and Iran, but barely a murmur against the arguably more autocratic and obscurantist but compliant Saudi Arabia and other Kingdoms.
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