Logan Darklighter Wrote:That's all you've got? One line of snark? Nothing else? Please... The answer is obvious. The premise of the question is lame and has nothing to do with the issue at hand.When you make a argument deserving of more than a line of snark, I'll give you more than a line of snark. As it is, your assertions in this thread border on the hilariously ironic. You're just so caught up in tribal politics that anything the other guys does is automatically bad, isn't it?
Seriously. The situation in Libya is a massively complex event, one which the US can not (for logistical reasons having to do with your two ongoing wars) and should not (for various realpolitik and moral reasons) engage in any sort of unilateral action. Is the US's response to the revolutionary fervor in the Middle East unhelpful? Maybe. It certainly doesn't help that the US has propped up dictators like Egypt's ousted strongman until a popular uprising forced his resignation. In this respect, yeah, Obama is kind of an asshole. But then we know he's an asshole. This is the man who has not only retained but greatly expanded the extraordinary powers Bush II granted himself and his law enforcement agencies and the military. Obama, after all, has called for the assassination of US citizens, has endorsed the indefinite detention of prisoners of war and the elimination of the presumption of innocence, who has only protected companies from lawsuits in wiretapping cases but is in the process of expanded the ability of your government to tap your personal communications as well. The fact he has continued to shit on the Middle East just as much as his predescessor is one fo the reasons why the UN is turning to France to enforce the no-fly-zone resolution it recently passed because the involvement of America would do more harm than good.
Your entire argument is based on a simplistic and trite understanding of both domestic and international politics, as well as a gross mischaracterization of the actual attitudes of your "opponents." So having spent more time on you than your arguments deserve I'll reiterate my main point. When you present an idea that is unworthy of mockery, I will respond without mockery.
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