The Libyan mission Operation Odyssey Dawn, under UN authority, is a dog's breakfast and nothing good is going to come out of it. The conniving elite of the Arab League has snookered an ever-ready coalition of western powers to do its bidding. And the western powers (Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada dutifully in tow), with their sights protectively fixed on oil-rich desert patches of the Middle East and North Africa, needed little urging to respond. This operation, as repeatedly broadcast by coalition leaders, is to save Libyan lives. Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, for instance, announced in Parliament: "Our...