Posted on 03/17/2011 2:03:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How many planes and aircraft carriers does the UN have?
Has Congress authorized this??
Can impeachment hearings start in the morning??
RE: Why the rush to war? Lybia had nothing to do with 9-11!
Ahh but remember, Gaddafi still had something to do with Lockerbie and the German Disco bombing.
It’s taken years, but it’s payback time.
Once the no fly zone is established, then what?
Qadaffi now controls most of the country.
His ground forces have established superiority over the rebels.
Who will commit ground forces to help drive them back, or prevent the genocide?
People think Obama’s been quiet behind the scenes....I’m afraid to know what he’s actually been doing. If it ain’t good for America, he’s there.
Well, the Italians have said they oppose military action and the Egyptians have said they will not participate. So, once again, why should the US be bombing Libya? If the Arab league wants to take action, they have plenty of planes and troops. NATO also failed to agree on a military course of action.
People are being slaughtered in Libya. IS this going on in Bahrain, as well?
lol
The UN resolution doesn’t limit this to a no-fly zone.
“In other words, we’re “mulling” it.”
So in the street patois Obama uses when it suits him, he would be a “mullah”?
That was back when we had a Congress. When we had three co-equal branchs of Government with different balancing responsibilities. When we had citizens that had the intelligence to wipe their asses.
What? You think the uprising in Libya or the other African/ME countries are fighting for a truly free self-determining republic or even a mob democracy? If so, you got blinders on, son. That whole area will become radicalized.
People die in war. As long as it's not our people, I'm tired of giving a shit about Africa. It's a cesspool and will always be so. It's a cultural/tribal thing.
Focus your efforts on Japan. A nation that learned their lesson and is one of the West's biggest allies, and have such self-restraint and honor that the World could learn from their tragedy. I don't give a shit about Africa, and apparently neither do they after all that the West has done for them. I'm over my care quota.
Khadafy sacrifices a military plane filled with civilians....
He can send helicopters against the rebels, we gonna shoot them down......
And when the seige of Benghazi begins, are we gonna bomb his troops.......
Why do I have the certainty that none of those charged with thinking these things through have done so.
>People are being slaughtered in Libya.
People were slaughtered in Darfur, the Congo, in Tibet in 08 by the Chinese, in Xinjiang also by the Chinese. We didn’t do anything.
Anyway, no one can rebut the assertion - The USA has no vital or strategic interest at stake in Libya.
However, Bahrain, Iraq and Saudi and the Gulf states are where we do.
The Mulligan Mullah?
“Genocide does not matter to you?”
Genocide of our enemies??? Hell NO!
Not as long as its a bunch of Islamic whack jobs
Because they no longer do. It's all about expediency and politics and keeping a cushy job at the CIA, NSA, NSC, DOD et al, now. Historical context doesn't even figure into the equation anymore. Yes, there are plenty of hard-working low-level people monitoring things, but they have no say in how intel should be acted upon. It's been about international politics for years and not defense of our Nation.
Me, well, I believe differently.
I know there are no guarantees on outcome, but I would rather have my money and my military fight the fight for freedom all over the world at times of crisis when the people under oppression make the first moves. I believe in this.
Of course my life is not on the line like our military's is. So my stance is not easily defendible.
But somehow freedom does not taste full when I know there are others suffering incredible brutality and fighting to be free of it.
America is great-and btw-over one hundred thousand troups were killed in the civil war-which was not a war against a tyrant-but a war about keeping the union together and abolishing slavery as a result.
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