Libyan Uprising

After a few weeks of headlines, I finally dove into what is actually going on in North Africa. I originally came across some headlines on Google News about something going on in Tunisia but didn't think it was a big deal so I didn't think much of it. Then came the protests in Egypt. Those caught my attention because of how close Egypt is to Israel. Everything seemed relatively peaceful there though so I didn't read into them too much, but kept track of what the headlines said until Mubarak stepped down. Now my AOL.com homepage is plastered with headlines about Libya and the violence going on in there. After gettin' some background and a timeline of what's gone down in Libya, I feel I have a bit of an understanding. The thing that draws me into more details about Libya than Egypt is that the government in Libya is fighting back and killing the protesters. In Egypt this was not happening. Right now the United States and the European Union have put sanctions on Libya in an effort to keep the violence from continuing. This didn't happen until two days ago. Now it's time to see how long it will take for the unrest to stop or to see if we need to get involved. Since this all started in Libya gas prices here have sky rocketed. If they keep goin' up like they have been, I wouldn't be surprised if the United States got involved to settle things down. The Navy is already stationing warships in the area just in case we need to go in for any reason. I never thought that uprising like this could happen in that area of the world since it is generally very Islamic and they are led by the laws of Allah and don't seem to change. However, of the past month the whole area seems to be in unrest. I would understand if this had happened when we originally invaded Iraq, but now that there are no more combat troops there, it is interesting to see that the area erupts. I am just nervous to see how this all turns out because I don't need gas to cost anymore than it already does and I would hate for the uprest to spill into Israel and destroy everything we have there.