Oil Over Ivory

The incoherence of the alleged reason for US military intervention in Libya is demonstrated both by the well-reported unrest in Syria, but also in the Ivory Coast, per Bloomberg.com:

The International Committee of the Red Cross reported the massacre of at least 800 people in the western Ivory Coast town of Duekoue as neighboring Ghana offered incumbent leader,Laurent Gbagbo, political asylum as fighting continued in the commercial capital, Abidjan.

Could it be that the "international community" is watching this situation from the sidelines because the Ivory Coast has little or no oil?

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