Alas, I think this is true

The Horrible Libya Hypocrisies - The Daily Beast

...U.S. neoconservatives and liberal humanitarian interventionists have trapped another U.S. president into acting as if the opposite were true.

Once this terrible duo starts tossing out words like "slaughter" and "genocide," the media goes crazy. Then, the chorus begins to sing of heartless inaction by the U.S. president, blaming him for the deaths. White House common sense crumbles into insanity. The reason why neither President Obama nor his coalition partners in Britain and France can state a coherent goal for Libya is that none of them have any central interest in the outcome there. It is only when a nation has a clear vital interest that it can state a clear objective for war. They've all simply been carried away by their own rhetoric.

Those few of us who are old enough to remember the 1950's will recall Fidel Castro was a U.S. media darling when he was the leader of a plucky band of revolutionaries fighting the evil dictator Batista, and it was only after he'd won and installed himself as the head of the government in Cuba that—yikes!—it turned out he was a terrible commie. My guess is that the thing in Libya could well turn out in a similar way.