The Glade 4.0

I wish them luck and hope once they become a functioning country able to export goods, that the United States can work a partnership that benefits both countries.

Until then, not a single $ needs to go to them until they have their #%#$ together.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Either way, from a US perspective, it can't get a whole lot worse than the previous regime.

Just because they may have elements of Sharia law does not make them another Iran. A large part of the reason Iran is the way it is, is that they used to have a dictator we supported. Libya used to have a dictator we helped topple. There's a pretty major difference there.

I'm also not sure who "we" is supposed to be.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I guess as long as the new government isn't 'sponsoring terrorism', it's an upgrade.. for whatever that's worth...

I'm just glad a "massacre" was prevented.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Other than the Lockerbie bombing 20+ years ago, what else has Ghadafi been up to?

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Don't hold your hand over your *** while you're waiting for it.

At least, not your right hand. By Islamic tradition, you are only allowed to **** on your left hand. Your right hand is for eating.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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They have oil.

And gold.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I thought that was Hindi?

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Hindi is a language, not a religion. You're thinking of Hindu, but no.

The command came from the Prophet Muhammed, but of course, most Urdu speakers (same language as Hindi, but written in Arabic rather than Sanskrit) are Muslim, so they would also follow the rule. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... left-hands

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Good, then we have exactly zero reason to send them anything except a trade agreement.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Are you objecting to the oil companies that are currently bidding for various rights and contracts to rebuild the oil infrastructure? Right now that's already being decried as "exploitation" by the West (because obviously Libya can do it faster and better with its own technological resources!) or to taxpayer-funded aid?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

No, and in fact I floated that idea earlier. But a private company making an agreement with a sovereign country for oil/resources isn't an issue to me. I have an issue with the government doing it. Hey we just bombed err liberated you, wanna talk about oil terms now?

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I'm thankful the "kinetic military action" was successful in preventing a "massacre".

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Oh come on, the Libyan intervention was pretty much entirely because nobody wanted a severely protracted conflict that would disable Libya's oil production for years. Bringing "freedom" and preventing "genocide" are just excuses used to sell the war to the masses.

I don't recall anyone seriously proposing that air power could prevent a massacre by the victorious rebels.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Not entirely. Getting rid of a complete ******* dictator is a decent secondary reason. Even if he's replaced by a new *******, that ******* will be our ******* and so he's likely to confine his assholean actions to his own shithole.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

"We need more **** puppets for our play, Randy, and we need angry **** puppets but they aren't mad at us. **** puppets only get angry at other **** puppets." - Lahey, Trailer Park Boys

Ahh, the whole point of the exercise was to "prevent a massacre", but only by those forces Qghadaffy controlled, surely not to "prevent a massacre" by those forces we were helping? I think my point has been missed.



Don't forget you started this shitstorm.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I'd say that the massacre that Qghadaffy would have indulged in would very likely have involved a significantly higher body count. I do not see any reason to think all massacres are created equal.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."