One question appropriate to ask oneself in such situations is where the working class stands in relation to imperialist warfare and the state. Most of the traditional left confuses these things intentionally or unintentionally. One imperialist conflict leads to another imperialist conflict. So it isn't just the population of Lybia alone that stands to be affected. The US takes Lybia and then ends up controlling a source of oil going to its European imperialist rivals. The European imperialists being weaker militarily have to go along with the US and participate in its wars or they will get cut out of the spoils. So you see a rush by nations, and capitalist propaganda apparatuses, to get in on the bloodshed as quickly as possible. The moral outrage faced by opponents of imperialist wars is formidable and it is easy to stir up through propaganda aimed at manipulating our most basic emotions. The US itself has one of the most heavily propagandized populations on the planet, and this is not surprising given that it has the largest military and one of the largest economies in the world.

Finally, when the capitalist slaughter has "ended" it only leads to the run-up of another bloody slaughter, just as in the wars in the Persian Gulf for the last three decades. As a revolutionary it is a responsibility to stand by the revolutionary class, the proletariat, and not allow flag-wavers of any stripe claim to you that the working class is simply an abstraction, that their capitalist republics are the only practical political reality, or that they are worth killing and dying for.