I think the reason they chose to stand by while countless people suffered was because the intervention of the West does not always yield the best of results, Saddam being the prime example of that. Although I agree that a No Fly zone should have been implemented a while back, right now on a grand scheme of things it doesn't make any sense to implement it now. The "war" is pretty much at an end, expect mass graves, interrogrations and the norm that usually come out under the rule of a dictator. Situation could have been much better handled, rebels were just slaughtered, I wonder what that says about the people that are still loyal to Gaddafi, who are willing to bomb, torture, kill their own countrymen just to follow orders. You really think sending millitary intervention into Libya would have been the best of solutions for Obama? He would lose support rather quickly had that occurred and the "war" actually continued to rage for a long time afterwards, like in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
