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Do you support America's intervention in Libya?
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Record your public opinion above.
Do you support America's intervention in Libya?
Record your public opinion above.
The U.S. interest was in preventing the negative effect if an Arab tyrant successfully demonstrated that unconstrained, horrific violence against their own oppressed people works. The Arab Facebook Revolution��™ lives on!
The U.S. interest was in preventing the negative effect if an Arab tyrant successfully demonstrated that unconstrained, horrific violence against their own oppressed people works. The Arab Facebook Revolution��™ lives on!
I think we need to do something. America has a history of standing up to brutal dictators and communist assholes. Why can't we just drop or ship weapons. Worked against the soviets when they were in Afganistan?
Do you support America's intervention in Libya?
Record your public opinion above.
The U.S. interest was in preventing the negative effect if an Arab tyrant successfully demonstrated that unconstrained, horrific violence against their own oppressed people works.
I am ambivalent on this, I support it as long as we don't get in deeper and have "mission creep."
It is not an American intervention. A coalition of nations is enforcing a UN resolution.
I think we need to do something. America has a history of standing up to brutal dictators and communist assholes. Why can't we just drop or ship weapons. Worked against the soviets when they were in Afganistan?
I think we need to do something. America has a history of standing up to brutal dictators and communist assholes. Why can't we just drop or ship weapons. Worked against the soviets when they were in Afganistan?
We have a history of standing up to brutal dictators?
You mean guys like Fulgencio Batista? Or Mobuto? Or the Shah of Iran? Or Augusto Pinochet?
We've backed and bankrolled plenty of brutal dictators over the years, just as long as they were "our" dictators. Heck, we're still propping up the House of Saud. America is no different than any other nation. We back people who back us. We're not evil imperialists and we're not white knights. We're a nation state looking out for own interests. How effectively we serve those interests by backing petty tyrants is a whole different question.
Do you realize the blowback that occurred from that? We gave weapon technology to the people we would be at war with twenty years later.
No, America has a history of supporting brutal dictators and communist assholes when it serves our interests. We supported the Taliban, we supported Saddam, when it served us to do so. Then, when they turn around and stab us in the back, which any idiot could have told them they'd do eventually, they get all surprised.
We make our own problems.
I'm not applying for American sainthood here just stating the facts. And yes you can put cases where we did support dictators using them as tools to serve our own self interest in its proper context, and Monday morning quarterback those policies. That isn't the point in this case. The point is we should help the people of Libya in my opinion but maybe just supply weapons etc.