Libya, the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and Double Standards admin, March 28, 2011August 30, 2024 Huffington Post March 28, 2011 Reasonable people can disagree on the appropriateness of the decision by the US and its NATO allies to attack Libya in the wake of the Gadaffi regime’s offensive against rebel-held cities under the doctrine of “the responsibility to protect” [yet] Even if one can justify the war on Libya on humanitarian grounds, this is probably not why it’s actually being fought. [Source]. Huffington Post Libya