I think Owen Jones is being naive to think that western intervention in Libya was well-intentioned:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/libya-disaster-shames-western-interventionists

The objective was to liquidate Gaddafi.

Nothing else mattered.

Saddam Hussain, Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi.

The message to the world is that if you threaten or attack the Western Powers sooner or later you will be eradicated.