Reply #42: What nonsense. [View All]

[JoePhilly]

You might have a point IF the Obama administration had suddenly decided to attack Libya for no reason, kind of like Bush did in Iraq.

The reality is that THE PEOPLE of the middle east (and North Africa) are starting to stand up to the various dictators in the region. In Tunisia and Egypt, we could have jumped in. But we did not. Interestingly, MANY on DU claimed that Obama's unwillingness to "jump in" Egypt was PROOF that he was secretly working behind the scenes to keep Mubarak in power. Those folks are now oddly silent.

But a key element of Egypt, and whether we engaged militarily, had to do with whether the situation turned violent. The protesters avoided violence, and the Egyptian military chose not to attack the people.

In Libya, that has not been the case. Gadaffi decided that his best path to remain in power was to use his military to attack the protesters. The US, with the UN decided to not allow that to happen. And as of this weekend, control of the NFZ passed to NATO.

What do you want to claim ... that NATO is an evil entity?

The Saudi regime will one day fall. And its people will be the ones to decide when. Not us.