Libya

What is going on in Libya? Last week we heard that some movie producer was killed in Libya. their were all sorts of people on face book morning his loss. Yet few said anything about the US soldiers who were killed the same week in Afghanistan.
Now today the news is saying that their were air strikes against the compound of Gadhafi...
The Libyans are complaining that this was an attempt to kill Gahafi.
Now that would be a terrific Idea as far as I am concerned but the US is not in the business of political assassination.
My question is this... If they are really SMART BOMBS, why did they have to go into the library?... instead shouldn't we be using conventional stupid bombs and just level the entire compound and call the collateral damage an "accident"?