I think you did a better job of addressing Levy's statement than other reporters.. But 2 points I wanna make.
1. If the DSK affair had occured before Libya, Levy's opinion on the DSK affair wouldn't have received coverage from American media.
In other words, Libya was his media debut to most Americans.
2. While I disagree with the way Levy dismisses the French reporter that made similar allegations, she has followed a consistent pattern of bringing up these allegations less than a year before the past three French presidential elections. Also, she works for a right-wing newspaper. I'm not saying she wasn't assaulted. But it seems probable that she is using this alleged assault for political purposes.

Given the situation I can't see this scandal derailing the attacks in Libya, although there might be some accusations of Sarkozy going to war to obscure a French scandal.
In any case I still love the fact that people can't seem to say the following:

'We do not know whether or not the man is guilty. We know that in the U.S.A there is supposed to be a presumption of innocence until they are proven guilty. We know that it would be strange for the police to arrest this man unless they felt that it was likely he had committed a crime. Therefore we will wait until the trial occurs and we will see what evidence is brought forward.'

Just once I wish people would say that.

The UN system seems to be getting a bit annoyed at the extent of state capitalism on show. For example the vilification of its senior officials, following their criticism of the US of course includes the hostility to S-G Kofi Annan after his adverse comments on the Iraq enterprise.

Is the World Bank next in the firing line? It repeats the view from the IMF that the dollar will be replaced as the world's reserve currency: “The most likely global currency scenario in 2025 will be a multi-currency one centred around the dollar, the euro, and the renminbi.”

I offer to your attention a film about six priorities of the generalized instruments of management by countries and people of Earth.
Six Principles of Global Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fF3TQ0lJnU
Anti-Qur'an Strategy of the Bible Project Wheeler-Dealers
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wXgXwj3MI
Nibiru and Annunakis on the Swiss francs
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDoU3tLwc3o

It would have been much easier to answer this question had the US Congress considered the US and/or NATO intervention in Libya before the action began. . Had this question been examined, public debate in favor and against the military action would have set forth the reasons supporting any position. . The congressional consent procedure was avoided and with that, any spirited public debate was preempted when the intervention began.
I'm not an historian. However, I can imagine it is difficult for historians to answer this question when genuine debate is lacking.

First he supported Roman Polanski, who drugged and raped a child and now this. What a total creep!

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has added his voice to the debate over Dominique Strauss-Kahn by writing a piece in defence of the director of the International Monetary Fund, published on the Daily Beast news website. Lévy stresses that the accusations of attempted rape levelled against Strauss-Kahn since Sunday have not yet been proven.

He writes: "I do not know what actually happened … in the room of the now famous Hotel Sofitel in New York …I do not know – no one knows, because there have been no leaks regarding the declarations of the man in question – if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was guilty of the acts he is accused of committing there, or if, at the time, as was stated, he was having lunch with his daughter."

He goes on to question how a chambermaid could have gone alone, "contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York's grand hotels of sending a 'cleaning brigade' of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet".

He also casts doubt on the account of Tristane Banon, the French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago. He says he holds it against those who "complacently" accept the account of "this other young woman, this one French", who "pretends to have been the victim of the same kind of attempted rape, who has shut up for eight years but, sensing the golden opportunity, whips out her old dossier and comes to flog it on television".

Banon described the attack in a television programme in 2007, but Strauss-Kahn's name was beeped out when the programme was broadcast. On Monday Banon's mother, Anne Mansouret, a Socialist councillor and friend of the Strauss-Kahn family, said she had persuaded her daughter not to press charges at the time of the alleged assault, a decision she says she now regrets.

Lévy writes: "What I do know is that nothing in the world can justify a man being thus thrown to the dogs." He continues: "Nothing … permits the entire world to revel in the spectacle, this morning, of this handcuffed figure, his features blurred by 30 hours of detention and questioning, but still proud." He rails against the American judge who, "by delivering [Strauss-Kahn] to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other."

Lévy says in the article that the man he calls a friend of 20 years, "bears no resemblance to this monster, this caveman, this insatiable and malevolent beast now being described nearly everywhere. Charming, seductive, yes, certainly; a friend to women and, first of all, to his own woman, naturally, but this brutal and violent individual, this wild animal, this primate, obviously no, it's absurd."

At the beginning of last week Ségolène Royal denied rumours that Lévy was trying to negotiate a rapprochement between herself and her then fellow would-be Socialist candidate for France's presidential election in 2012, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.