09-07-2016, 01:40 AM
(09-07-2016, 01:23 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:29 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:05 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: So, How many dead, again? Hillary did what to our embassies?
There is still that little matter of the war before the embassies. Even HuffPo, hardly a right wing publication, says that she was one of the prime movers for the Libyan war and that Libya was better off under Gaddaffi. No wonder the neocons support her these days.
Thanks for providing evidence that you have, like the rest of the Boomers, moved into the Make War, Not Love stage of your life.
Well, some people on the Left and Right are complaining about Hillary's support for USA's actions in Libya, but Trump and the Republicans are ONLY making hay out of the deaths at the Benghazi American embassy, not the Libyan uprising or US actions; even though Hillary made mince meat of the Republicans at the hearings earlier. That is the point, regardless of what you think about the Arab Spring peoples' uprising in Libya against their cruel and ruthless dictator, and NATO's UN-approved activities to protect and/or help the rebels. My approval for uprisings against tyranny has not changed from an earlier "phase" in my Boomer life. I still root for the people. Whether the USA or NATO did the right things is questionable, but opposing those things is not such a clear-cut or obviously-correct idea as you seem to think.
Every other intervention in the region has ended badly, there was no reason to believe this one would end any better. I very much doubt that Hillary, the US government or NATO really gave a shit about the people. What should interest you is one of the main motives, though not the only one, was to prevent a gold backed dinar competing against the dollar. This is something I long ago pointed out as one of the reasons for the countries the US has attacked and its current enmity with Iran.
It looks like more of the usual Boomer problem solving, take a problem and turn it into a huge intractable one for all of the wrong reasons.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises