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 dont understand. Who are the Libyan rebels? What do they want? Why do we love them so?
Ive 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 Gaddafis forces?
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Idiot.
Dude, what is your major malfunction?
So who was it that you "called up one night"?
Where did you find the number?
Hmmm?
To me, I believe what Sherman did to Georgia and South Carolina may have hastened the end of the war and shown that the Confederate Army could no longer protected its people. But it was not a just war policy. Grant beat Lee's army in the field through constant battles of attrition. Dresden did not win WWII. The Russian horde, the British and Americans beat the damn Nazis. The air war made it possible by destroying strategic and tactical targets, not by slaughtering people in Dresden or Hamburg. I don't think any of the authorities on that war believe otherwise.
One of the folks at Free Republic. I didn’t get his name, but he seemed to be a nice fellow.
Just rang up the old home office, huh?
So you don’t agree with Sherman’s method. The thing is that Sherman cared about his men and winning the war. He didn’t care about political correctness.
Dude, You can pay Free Republic, see. And I used that information to contact them. Instead of peeing in the wind why don’t you try to contact them yourself. You will see that it is possible. Like I said, I didn’t take the mans name. All I know is that he was a pretty decent person on the phone.
You are an idiot.
No, let them kill each other. Much smarter.
So now what, we need a couple of school buses and a Lambo to get the job done. I chose the school buses for visibility on the way down and to save money over motor coaches.
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So tell me where you got the phone number.
I think easy targets are practice. That is all I am saying. If you want to call the enemy people that is your choice.
Using the war methods you advocate fits well with the way the Germans made war on Belgium in WWI, the way the Nazis made war in WWII, the rape of Naking, and Genghis Khan. You're far too cavalier about slaughter and in the advocacy of it to be honest with you.
Keep trying, If you want to contact them bad enough you will figure it out. I didn’t write down there number.
There is no right side in the Libyan civil war. It is a civil war between two violent radical factions that the US should take no part in settling.
Qaddafi on one side and Al Qaeda on the other, those are the choices.
We have to be honest about war. When war comes to are front porch we will all become caviler.
No.
Why not?
I don't have to figure it out, chief. I know.
You can either demonstrate where you found a number to
"call" Free Republic or admit you are full of crap.
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