From the Department of Insurrections

While the French start enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya -- this being a possibly good side effect of the U.S. having delayed action so far, in that it forced other nations to step up in the matter -- other conflicts continue to burn across two continents. In Bahrain, the military continues its crackdown on the unarmed opposition, and to make matters worse, the situation in the Ivory Coast continues to radically deteriorate. Foreign Affairs' Elizabeth Dickinson weighs in:

Believe me, I know: You have no bandwidth for the Ivory Coast today. But that may be exactly why the situation in this West African country -- far from the geopolitics of Libya and the human tragedy of Japan -- is going south so quickly. It looks increasingly like outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo has made a calculation that the world just doesn't have enough free hands to stop him if he pushes the country back into war..

Sadly, Jeffrey Goldberg may be right when he questions why the West is so (relatively) quick to action in northern Africa but not on the continent's benighted West Coast...