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To go to Liberia or not to go -- that is the question
TownHall.com ^
| Friday, July 11, 2003
| by Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 07/10/2003 11:39:13 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON--It was the left that led the opposition to war in Iraq. Now it is the left that is most strenuous in urging intervention in Liberia. Curious.
No blood for oil, it seems, but blood for Liberia. And let us not automatically assume that Liberia will be an immaculate intervention. Sure, we may get lucky and suffer no casualties. But Liberia has three warring parties, tons of guns and legions of desperate fighters. Yet pressure is inexorably building to send American troops to enforce a peace.
There are the usual suspects, Jesse Jackson and The New York Times, but the most unapologetic proponent of the no-Iraq yes-Liberia school is Howard Dean, Democratic flavor of the month. ``I opposed the war in Iraq because it was the wrong war at the wrong time,'' says Dean, but ``military intervention in Liberia represents an appropriate use of American power.''
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charleskrauthammer; liberia
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posted on
07/10/2003 11:41:57 PM PDT
by
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It's real simple. LIBERIA = SOMALIA. End of story.
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posted on
07/10/2003 11:48:53 PM PDT
by
ExSoldier
(M1911A1: The ORIGINAL "Point and Click" interface!)
To: JohnHuang2
We have the question. Does anyone care about the answer? If so, mine is no.
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posted on
07/11/2003 12:08:39 AM PDT
by
jammer
To: JohnHuang2
All this stuff about African aid and the intervention in Liberia is making me nervous. We'll spend billions of dollars and will see nothing in return.
5
posted on
07/11/2003 12:18:09 AM PDT
by
Mihalis
(The French boycott continues)
To: JohnHuang2
What the hell is going on here? Is United States the "rent an Army for free"? Let's get back to the good old days when war was decided on the basis of the spoils of war. If it wasn't worth it you didn't fight it.
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posted on
07/11/2003 12:29:39 AM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(When the world thinks the United States is right, we've got to change directions.)
To: jwh_Denver
There's diamonds in them thar hills if you want war booty. I've never seen a war yet that increased our national treasure. We were fortunate that the Texas Republic decided to join our country after they got their independence from Mexico but have been paying for it ever since.
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posted on
07/11/2003 2:45:04 AM PDT
by
meenie
To: ExSoldier
They want us there just so they can make us leave. There lies the quagmire that the Dems were crying about.
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posted on
07/11/2003 2:49:38 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: Mihalis
We'll spend billions of dollars and will see nothing in return. Business as usual, huh?
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posted on
07/11/2003 6:38:04 AM PDT
by
jammer
To: JohnHuang2
This is a set-up.
If we go, I say the military take volunteer soldiers ONLY! Africa isn't a playground. You don't see American blacks flocking to AFrica.
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