“The Europeans and Americans would like to help the rebels in Libya, but the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan have spurred fears of a military intervention. So far, the only thing the EU has been able to agree on are financial sanctions. In Germany, leaders fear getting sucked in to the civil war.”
read it here:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,750852,00.html
quite worrying, the way things go, the rebel forces may be wiped out in the next few weeks