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Thread #136495   Message #3124191
Posted By: Stringsinger
29-Mar-11 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Bombing of Tripoli has just begun
We have an imperial presidency; King Obama has declared war unilaterally and twisted the arms of so-called allies to do it.

99 sorties are being carried out by the U.S. The other members of NATO report to American generals.

The problem arises when we don't know who the rebels are or why they chose
violence over non-violent resistance as was done in Tunisia, Egypt and now
Yemen, Bahrain and soon Saudi Arabia.

Will these rebels replace a brutal dictator with another brutal dictatorship?
When guns and weaponry rule, these means continue into politics.

Mass slaughter is done throughout the world in Indonesia (Copasset army),
Darfur, Ivory Coast, and human rights violations in China, Saudi Arabia,
Israel, and many countries in the world. Why isolate Libya just "because we can."?

Obama didn't think this out carefully enough, that is why he doesn't have the support for this effort, has possibly split the peace movement down the center,
reinforced Pax Americana in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and elsewhere.

Ultimately the thousands of lives he claims he has saved may be more costly in human lives down the road. You don't think there will be American "boots on the ground"? Wanna' bet?