You know, there are times when I get tired of calling for reasoned things like you just showed support for here, and having people respond as if the Libyan opposition wasn’t problematic (to be charitable).
It is absolutely absurd that we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars knowing full well the next leadership of Libya will detest the United States every bit as much as Khadaffi did.
What’s worse, there is a very good chance that this multi-nation movement is coordinated, and my very well be the start of a multi-nation Islamic movement that is very problematic.
All you hear is “Freedom Fighters”...
As if.
It's almost to the point now that to believe otherwise, strains credulity.
I don't think that it's any coincidence that the very countries al-Qaeda has railed against for almost two decades are the very countries that have become recently embroiled in "public uprisings". Sure, it's conceivable that there are some young people, like in Egypt, who genuinely want a more open and just society. Unfortunately, those are rarely the ones who will fight and die to obtain it. So, it's the more extreme elements - either the Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaeda directly - that seizes control in the chaos.
If Gaddafi falls, I think the chances of another Islamic theocracy in the region increases exponentially.
If we don't get some Republican leadership that understands this, rather than reflexively calling for "freedom", we are going to be in heap big trouble, very soon.