I agree with Carole as well. Gaddafi is a fucking crazy despot, and he isn't relenting against the opposition, unlike Ben Ali of Tunisia or Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. This guy actually promised bloodshed and war if the opposition who were demanding democracy didn't bow down
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I've been wondering whether to comment but since BB and Carole have both done so then I'm going to go ahead. Like Carole and BB, I've been following this since the first uprising in Tunisia, and I have to agree with them
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It's not the initial intervention with which I have the problem. My issue is that, over here, our warmongers don't know when to quit. Who the hell knows how long we'll end up being involved. Once Republican fingers are in the battle pie, it'll be a miracle if our involvement in the Lybia crisis ends in under a year.
This whole situation disgusts me, for both the present and the future connotations of it. It's a shame people are having kids at a record rate these days; what sort of planet are we leaving them with? It's a big clusterfuck of nonsense.
I see your point and agree, but my problem is that we don't help other oppressed people that, say, don't sit on a giant pot of oil. I'm more out with my own country for talking out of both sides of its mouth. I feel for the Lybians, but I honestly don't see the US being able to support this effort for much longer. We've got nothing left.
I'm more pissed off that we openly subsidised Gadaffhi's regime and then we decide we don't like him now. It reeks of another US + Saddam thing. That didn't end well, and this won't, either.
I understand why Europe is getting involved, but all it's going to do is mire my country into even more shit we can't handle. Every day, teachers and government employees are losing their jobs due to lack of funds, but we can afford to launch 122 missiles, the worth of which could BUY a small country. We're not Big Brother, and we're not in charge of the world. There can be a conflict happening on the globe that we don't have our hands in.
If the US had decided to help out the Sudanese or the people of Zimbabwe (no idea what that would even be called), then it wouldn't bother me so much. If this is a so-called mission of mercy, then they should stop pretending that it isn't beneficial to themselves.
I agree with this. I read a satirical/political magazine called Private Eye. Two weeks ago it ran a photo spread of all the Western leaders who had shaken hands with Gadaffi and done deals with him. Even the famed Nelson Mandela shook his hand.
Unfortunately the reality is that yesterday's tyrant becomes today's friend and tomorrow's tyrant again.
There are other things in other countries that we should have done, but that doesn't mean we should not help the Libyan people when they asked for International support. And it is international.
We're facing job cuts here. The public service sector is being asked to find between 25-40% cuts to get us out of the mire. The same situation holds in France and all over Europe. It is possible that I won't have a job in September.I might be safe, but it is very likely that come September 2012 that I won't have a job at all.
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This whole situation disgusts me, for both the present and the future connotations of it. It's a shame people are having kids at a record rate these days; what sort of planet are we leaving them with? It's a big clusterfuck of nonsense.
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I understand why Europe is getting involved, but all it's going to do is mire my country into even more shit we can't handle. Every day, teachers and government employees are losing their jobs due to lack of funds, but we can afford to launch 122 missiles, the worth of which could BUY a small country. We're not Big Brother, and we're not in charge of the world. There can be a conflict happening on the globe that we don't have our hands in.
If the US had decided to help out the Sudanese or the people of Zimbabwe (no idea what that would even be called), then it wouldn't bother me so much. If this is a so-called mission of mercy, then they should stop pretending that it isn't beneficial to themselves.
Huele mucho. >.>
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Unfortunately the reality is that yesterday's tyrant becomes today's friend and tomorrow's tyrant again.
There are other things in other countries that we should have done, but that doesn't mean we should not help the Libyan people when they asked for International support. And it is international.
We're facing job cuts here. The public service sector is being asked to find between 25-40% cuts to get us out of the mire. The same situation holds in France and all over Europe. It is possible that I won't have a job in September.I might be safe, but it is very likely that come September 2012 that I won't have a job at all.
need to get that bestseller finished ...
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