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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:35 AM Original message |
If Iraq and Afghanistan had not happened, how would you feel about this Libya action? |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Still pissed off. n/t |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. I would feel no different |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. Ditto. |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. It seems to me to be more similar to the NATO/UN action in the Balkans |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. I agree with you. It seems most similar to the action in the Balkans. |
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ReggieVeggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
4. hmmm...let me remove the last 10 years of history from my mind... |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. I hate double standards period. |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. So, we either intervene in all or none? |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
6. This funnels funding away from troops on 2 war fronts. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. Interesting question -- does "forgetting" that history clarify one's thinking or muddy it? |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. the picking and choosing of whom to "help" is curious |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. That's somewhat of a myth. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. what about Yemen, or China, or Bahrain, or (insert down trodden country with mean ruler here) |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. You're right, not going to argue |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Incidentally |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:23 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Or guarding oil interests |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The report |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. No matter |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. Not only did Iraq and Afghanistan happen |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
15. probably similar to how I felt about Kosovo- terrible, but |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I think this situation is much more similar to Kosovo |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
19. Since they are probably using the permanent military bases they built in Iraq as staging areas... |
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freshwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
21. That it is still a foreign policy failure and dictated by oil since their media is promoting it. |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
22. the same - we should stay out |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
24. had the government not just spent 3 months telling me how broke it is |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's unconstitutional. |
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Travelman (326 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
26. Exactly the same. |
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