No fly zone in Libya - What about Ivory Coast?

We as an International community alienate ourself from Ivory coast so easily and have been sympathizing with Jamsine in Libya. Look at the coverage of Ivory Coast in news. The condition is slowly moving to a civil war there. The helicopter gunships apparently sold by Belarus, armored vehicles are exchanging fire on the roads killing thousands everyday. For few days the media was interested but that was more in Belarus then in Ivory Coast. The UN is indeed present there but the scale of response there is minuscule compared to what we are agreed to do in Libya. Are the allies trying a regime change from "back door" - decide for yourself.


What we need is another Iraq or Afghanistan but looks like we have one in the making here. May be enough Iraqis or Afghanis were not enough we want Libyans added to that list. I pray that we don't have to see this happen.


For a second, let's step back and recollect all the words west has been associating with Middle East recently - democracy, freedom of speech, peaceful protests. West has even agreed to enforce a no-fly zone after the security council was convinced. Arabs, France, Britain and United States have been stepping up efforts to protect the people of Libya. They want to remove Gaddafi and are supporting the fight for basic human rights.


Let's step back and look at Ivory Coast.


Ivory Coast had an election recently. The whole world witnessed and declared the elections free and fair. Alassane Ouattara won the elections but Laurent Gbagbo never left power and today the democratically elected leader has been pushed into the corner. UN peacekeepers are helping him survive by providing day and night security while the government operates from a heavily fortified hotel. 
Ouattara recently broke three months of silence on the gunmen fighting to defend his claim to the presidency and said he officially recognized the former rebels as the legitimate army. So called incumbent Laurent Gbagbo was supposed to go out of office but refused and the situation today is  somewhere between a conflict and a civil war. Heavy fights are going on in the city of Abidjan.


Ivory Coast is the world's leading producer of Cocoa but I guess the impact on the world economy of the conflict is not enough. May be if they were the top producer of oil the condition would have been totally different. It's not just a coincidence that Libyan rebels have got so much of effort especially from the countries to which Libya exports energy to.


if Ivory Coast's cocoa was a replacement for Black Gold - would the security council allow external intervention there? Is the civilian life also measured in terms of world wide oil their country contributes. Isn't this vested interest?


Dirty economics and with Yen going up in the wake of the Japanese disaster -  are we all corrupt people trying to make a quick buck off the needy. No one wants to miss a chance on the possibility of Yen demand because Japan needs it to rebuild it's economy. We all say we are with Japan but I guess we don't care as long as the Tsunami or the earthquake didn't hit me or my loved ones - the point is we don't care !