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Should prez Obama try to free those captured girls in Nigeria

What should Obama do about the captured Nigerian girls

  • Go in and find the girls right away without help from any other nation

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Get approval from congress then act

    Votes: 5 15.2%
  • Just help the goverment where the girs live

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Do nothing

    Votes: 20 60.6%

  • Total voters
    33

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What do you think he should do?
 
We should get Congressional approval and then only go in if Nigeria asks for help.

The USA would not stand for another nation to come in and deal with Waco for us.
 
We should get Congressional approval and then only go in if Nigeria asks for help.

The USA would not stand for another nation to come in and deal with Waco for us.

Bingo!
 
They were kidnapped by islamists because they were trying to get an education and there's nothing muslims hate more than women getting an education.

Most are likely dead by now the rest, traumatized.
Also, there's nothing Obama can do.
 
More likely given as "prizes" to terrorists, not dead. The head bloke was saying 9 years old was enough to become a bride I believe.

I imagine its too little too late though.
 
It's none of our business.
 
Most are likely dead by now the rest, traumatized.
Also, there's nothing Obama can do.

So they're worthless now? Ok, pretty clearly looking at women the same way their kidnappers do.
 
So they're worthless now? Ok, pretty clearly looking at women the same way their kidnappers do.

Where did I say that, mind you?
Come on, I'm just dying to hear how you read this:
They were kidnapped by islamists because they were trying to get an education and there's nothing muslims hate more than women getting an education.

Most are likely dead by now the rest, traumatized.
Also, there's nothing Obama can do.

And concluded what you concluded. Come, show me your line of reasoning.
 
Where did I say that, mind you?
Come on, I'm just dying to hear how you read this:


And concluded what you concluded. Come, show me your line of reasoning.

Rainman05 said:
Most are likely dead by now the rest, traumatized.
Also, there's nothing Obama can do.

The implication was that the rest, traumatized, were now ruined and not worth saving. That it's easy to assume most are dead.
And not worth our effort to save.
 
The implication was that the rest, traumatized, were now ruined and not worth saving. That it's easy to assume most are dead.
And not worth our effort to save.

You're projecting so hard I could run powerpoint presentations off of you.
Cheers.
 
You're projecting so hard I could run powerpoint presentations off of you.
Cheers.

Projecting what? If that's not what you mean, feel free to clarify. It was a bit harsh but that's how it read.

Or...own it. Up to you.
 
If it is possible we should of course intervene. Civilization demands it.

Why is it always us though? Hey, since everyone seems to think China is whooping us how about China spend a little $$$ and do the humanitarian things for us? Hell, get the UN to start doing **** again. It's always the U.S. that has to do this **** and I'm tired of it. We focus on every single issue plaguing us domestically, once those are adressed, then and ONLY THEN can we once again begin helping the world.
 
Cameron just joined in the search, so the President's choice is simple. Pass over the satellite images of the area to Britain, and sic the poodle on those vile kidnappers.
 
We should do the same thing we did for the missing girls in Ohio. Nothing.
 
We should do something. Humanitarian aid is one of the few areas where international intervention is morally acceptable.
 
So they're worthless now? Ok, pretty clearly looking at women the same way their kidnappers do.

Where you get that idiotic conclusion from is literally beyond me...
 
The implication was that the rest, traumatized, were now ruined and not worth saving. That it's easy to assume most are dead.
And not worth our effort to save.

He makes a statement of fact.

Most ARE likely dead or traumatized. Do you think differently and if so why?

....also he says NOTHING about not trying to help them. Nothing...
 
over 700,000 children go missing in the US every year....right here in our own backyard.
 
The war on terror continues.
 
What do you think he should do?

Against my usual stance of nonintervention, it is the moral thing to do to provide for their rescue on the condition that we have the location of their whereabouts.
 
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