Nobody's talking about Ivory Coast the way they are about Libya. Nobody is talking about going in there and stopping Gbagbo. They are black and have no oil. Not to mention that they've been going on since before Libya, and nobody was talking about it before Japan's disaster even happened.
But they have almost all the chocolate! Somebody should do something for that reason alone!
There isn't anyone who needs to be deterred in Japan. That is a watch and hope situation, which Ivory Coast is not. They are handling it superbly, I might add; and earthquake-proofing the way we think is "too expensive" probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives from buildings, bridges, and nuclear power plan infrastructure that all didn't collapse.
Dogs are eating corpses in the streets of Abidjan. I'm sure that's happening in Japan also, but that wasn't PREVENTABLE, and this is/was.
But we care about Japan because we need them, or because we are worried about how their disaster will affect us. Apparently none of that is true in Ivory Coast.