Posted on 03/20/2011 4:13:01 AM PDT by Scanian
Politics seems to have become a sort of mental illness. We have no bloody business in Libya, and no idea what we hope to achieve there.
We are daily told that we have no money to spare. We have just scrapped a large part of our Navy.
Our Army is stuck in an Afghan war whose point nobody can explain. And now we have set out on a course that could drag us into a long, gory brawl in North Africa.
And yet, when the Prime Minister announces this folly he is praised. Why? Partly it is because we all watch too much TV. Its reports simplify, then exaggerate.
Reporters, much like politicians, like to feel they are helping to make history, and get excited by subjects they knew nothing about until last Wednesday.
Before we know where we are, we are taking sides in quarrels we don’t understand. Who are the Libyan rebels? What do they want? Why do we love them so?
I’ve no idea, and nor has Mr Cameron, as we discovered when he (yes, it was him, not poor William Hague) sent the SAS to see them and they were welcomed with pitchforks and mockery.
The only sensible policy in Libya is to wait and see who wins, and then make friends with them. If you think this heartless, you are of course right. Foreign policy is heartless. Nice countries end up being conquered or going bankrupt. But it may be no more heartless than our kindly interference.
I pray that this episode ends quickly and cleanly. Perhaps it will. But we cannot know. What if our humanitarian bombs and missiles accidentally kill women and children (which is almost certain)? What if air attacks and distant shelling fail to stop Gaddafi’s forces?
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Yeah, like its going to end with that. LOL.
see #118
It could, it could not, what is the difference. If it did end there, what would you say? If it started where you fear, what would you say? The point is that you are anti-American. No mater what we do you will hate us.
For all we know, some of them may be vicious animals from Sudan and Somalia sent to keep the pot boiling.
The whole thing looks like an emotional decision designed to assist self-styled “democrats.” And as all serious adults know, emotional decisions are invariably piss-poor.
Your strategy actually worked for the Indians. That is the subcontinent Indians.
I’m lost, what strategy?
Hey yo, if your reasoned logic is so sound, why are we not in Sudan? =.=
I’m not sure but tHey’re bitching about it now...telling the Western powers to stop the “indiscriminate use of force.”
And I would hope that someone who HAD served in one of those conflicts would understand that KILLING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS A BAD IDEA. Our goal is to protect the populace from the bad guys. Your championing of a policy of blowing everyone away is not what a professional solider or Marine would be in accordance with. Besides it being against the UCMJ (google it if you have no idea what that is), it won't win our wars.
Throwing yourself in front of trains actually won the Indians their freedom. I can not argue against the effectiveness of that strategy, but I would rather not participate in it.
This is at least the second time you have defined war as training. You are an idiot.
“permanent vacationer”
Don’t you know it!
This weeks Rasmussen’s should tell a story.
then the War on Terror(ists) is won.
Amen!
Mega bump to post #114
It is an act of war. From the launching of the first cruise missle we have launched an unauthorized and undeclared war against a sovereign nation.
What do we expect to accomplish by this act of naked aggression? Has anyone in Obama's administration indicated what our endgame strategy is in this war??
Maybe you can explain it for them.
” Witch side are the bad guys on ? “
That is the ate up thing about this site. I actually called them up one night after a long fight and offered to send them by DD214. I asked that they would make it a requirement for anyone claiming service, but they declined.
I have chilled out since then. so should you.
Kill the bad guys.
...and Iran is resolute and focused on becoming the first middle eastern nation to become nuclear, when the rest of the world has gone completely mushy after the tsunami.
You are a troll. Go back to DU.
Ok, someone report this troll to JR now.
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