Is made here with painstaking care – and from a conservative viewpoint – by Andrew McCarthy at NRO.

His conclusion:

I appreciate that it is hard to say, “Butt out.” Qaddafi is a monster and his opposition is murky enough (for now) to be portrayed as “rebels” and “freedom fighters.” But I fear we’re being swept away by emotion and by what we should now know is the vain hope that making sacrifices for besieged Muslims is going to make the ummah like us better.

It is essential to attack Islamic terrorists who plot against America, but our humanitarian military efforts in the Islamic world have been a disaster — at staggering costs in lives and hundreds of billions of dollars that we don’t have.

We should be working on how to get the nation disentangled from Islamic countries, not leading the nation headlong into another conflict that we cannot win.