David Aaronovitch on Twitter supporting the idea of getting NATO to intervene in Libya and going back to earlier interventions shows his characteristic attitude towards the finer details of international law:
In any case, who was prosecuted after Kosovo?
Or: we need to do something about the Libyan situation: bombing is something, so let’s do it. It’s telling that an old cheerleader of intervention like Aaronovitch would get all gung-ho on Libya, but not Egypt or Yemen or Bahrain and without being in the least bit chastised by what happened in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq that would make lesser mortals wary of trying yet another round of “bomb them into democracy”. It’s hard to imagine something more likely to help Khadaffi stay in power than being attacked by America and NATO. The hubris on display here is breathtaking.