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Is supporting the general Middle Eastern and North African unrest specifically in Libya with military action a good thing?

Hell yeah.  Gadhafi must go.
1 (6.7%)
Who cares?  Gadahfi must be replaced so who cares with who or what?
0 (0%)
Libya was not moving towards becoming an islamic state like recent events in Egypt, Tunisia and so on so yes, we should kill Gadhafi to support that move.
0 (0%)
This is a war to keep oil prices low.
0 (0%)
The people behind overthrowing Gadhafi are not what they seem to be and we may be sorry for helping them.
13 (86.7%)
Iran could not possibly be behind the simultaneous unrest in North Africa and the Middle East that moves those regions more towards islamic states.
1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 14


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Rastus

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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2012, 07:39:12 AM »
I thought I'd resurface this just in case there are those out there who thought wacking Libya’s Col. Gadhafi was a good thing.

A lot of people say hindsight is 20-20.  I say that most of those people either have no discernment whatsoever or they don't want to think like a responsible adult and use the hindsight saying as a crutch to excuse themselves.

Ponder what you thought and why.  If you thought wacking Gadhafi was going to lead to good things critcally examine yourself, why you thought that and then think about how to do better next time.
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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2012, 03:53:27 PM »
Any time you jsut take out a dictator., you have a power void that needs to be filled.  Often its filled by people you would rather not have in power.
I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2012, 04:11:31 PM »
Yes, but this time it was easy to know because Tunisia had fallen to muslim brotherhood and Egypt was being destabilized at the same time.  It didn't take a rocket scientist to know what was coming to this vacuum.  It was abundantly clear this was regional destabilization at work.
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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2012, 04:17:00 PM »
This was published March 25, 2011:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html

The rebels our government supported to remove Ghadafi had al Qaeda links. Kind of makes me want to ask "Are we fighting Eurasia or East Asia this week?"

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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2012, 04:58:48 PM »
Whenever these peasants get a say they vote for oppression, hate and violence.
Any body remember the vote in Gaza ?
The one that put Hamas in power.
Our real enemies are in Washington.

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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
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Re: LIBYA, North Africa and the Middle East
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2012, 06:11:11 AM »
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Our real enemies are in Washington.

And our own countrymen who are either too lazy to be responsible thinking adults or who are voting to gain a free lunch for themselves.
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