New York Times сегодня http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/africa/16libya.html говорит следующие внятные вещи:

there is growing consensus in the Obama administration that imposing a no-flight zone over Libya would no longer make much of a difference, a senior official said. Just moving the ships and planes into place to impose an effective no-flight zone, the official said, would take until April, too late to help rebels hunkered down in Benghazi.
While administration officials said the United States would not obstruct efforts by other countries to build support for a no-flight zone<...>

Поставить корабли в позу для обеспечения No-Flight zone - не хрен собачий, раньше апреля не успеть, а в апреле оно будет бесполезно. Впрочем, если кого-то жжет, может лезть поперек батьки, мы держать не будем.

Among those options are jamming Libyan government radio signals and financing the rebel forces with $32 billion in Libyan government and Qaddafi family funds frozen by the United States. That money could be used either for weapons or relief.

Зато можем раздербанить чужие миллиарды.

The grim news from Ajdabiya was met with anger, anguish and tears by rebel leaders in Benghazi. On Tuesday afternoon, many of them privately acknowledged that an attack on the seat of rebel power was inevitable, if not imminent, and they again pleaded for Western intervention.

Ну вот, диктатор довел до слез.