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Action or Inaction That Is the Question With Foreign Intervention In Libya

What is Libya, what is she, to paraphase a song Who Is Sylvia, What is She but the events of the last couple of days implies one thing for definite, a lack of a publiscised plan of action, whatever that might be, with regards to the government/autocracy/dictatorship and opposition in the State of Libya. It is just too quiet. We see that the "Empire Strikes Back" if that is what we define the regime, but the empire could still overrun a lightly armed opposition just because it has the armaments capable of inflicting such severe damage, by way of air strikes and high velocity and long range armaments including missiles. The question that I am asking is what does the outside world define this episode in the history of Libya. Does the opposition have viability or whatever that has entailed that it has been recognised by France or was this done prematurely. Or does this prove nothing. In other words, is this Kosovo and Bosnia, or even Iraq, or on the contrary is this Zimbab...