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So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya... Wibble Send a noteboard - 20/03/2011 04:38:25 PM
...Russia has called for non-selective bombing to stop, whatever that means. China has expressed deep regret. India has joined them. And the head of the Arab League (the body who have spent the last week ringing their hands saying something should be done or there's going to be a massacre, but not doing squat fucking diddly themselves), has called for all bombing/action to stop.

And they are all squeeling this isn't what we wanted.

Brilliant. Good to see some things never change. The UN is still a powerless, weak kneed, irrelevant mouthpiece of tyrants and non-entities. And their resolutions aren't worth the paper they are written on.

The West still gets dumped on by the Arab league for taking any action, despite them spending all week pleading for someone to take action.

And all these people and the media still think that somewhow you can stop Gaddafi, implement a non-fly zone and protect the rebels...without actually having to, you know, drop bombs that take out air defence systems, airfields, military installations and tanks. No, you just wave your magic wand instead and it's all better apparently.

Still they are right on one thing, we shouldn't be there. Instead we should have stood back, watched the massacre and when it was all over the media and the world and UN was wailing, we should have pointed a finger at the arab league and gone "Well what the fuck did you do about it, it's on your fucking doorstep".

So we've been dragged into a civil war by several bodies who have now decided, one day later, that they don't like that. And who knows what happens next, what if the rebels advance again, do we start bombing them? After all we are only allowed to protect civilians, whatever a civilian is these days...

Rant over, i feel a bit better after that.
This message last edited by Wibble on 20/03/2011 at 05:12:15 PM
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So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya... - 20/03/2011 04:38:25 PM 1477 Views
Quite. - 20/03/2011 04:41:39 PM 673 Views
The Arab league guy has gone out saying he was misquoted. - 20/03/2011 05:26:21 PM 723 Views
... completely surprising absolutely no one. *NM* - 20/03/2011 05:28:20 PM 265 Views
China and Russian abstained instead of voting No, which is odd. - 20/03/2011 05:32:02 PM 658 Views
I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights.. - 20/03/2011 10:15:59 PM 627 Views
Re: I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights.. - 20/03/2011 11:12:11 PM 723 Views
exactly - 21/03/2011 12:13:28 AM 613 Views
Re: So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya... - 20/03/2011 05:31:48 PM 809 Views
Apparently Qatar is about to join the fray... it is rather crucial that the Arab world backs this. - 20/03/2011 05:50:14 PM 719 Views
And - 20/03/2011 05:52:59 PM 689 Views
There is a lot of politics going on in the Arab League, from what I've read - 20/03/2011 05:52:31 PM 937 Views
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Not really - 20/03/2011 06:23:52 PM 818 Views
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I dunno. - 20/03/2011 06:59:18 PM 796 Views
But the people who are going to think that way are going to do it no matter what - 20/03/2011 10:13:36 PM 673 Views
The impression I got - 21/03/2011 04:14:57 PM 781 Views
to much diplomacy and not enough action - 21/03/2011 04:56:45 PM 699 Views
It is us vs. them. - 20/03/2011 10:30:50 PM 863 Views
Seriously. I can't believe Snoop and Rebekah's comments. It's like we had weeks to act. - 20/03/2011 10:27:40 PM 779 Views
We have had weeks to act - 20/03/2011 11:15:15 PM 788 Views
Because when you get involved in what is, unfortunately, an internal matter, - 20/03/2011 11:18:16 PM 689 Views
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I have to ask: - 21/03/2011 03:13:31 AM 862 Views
I don't think the people in Libya give at rat's ass about what the king of Qatar wants - 21/03/2011 05:12:26 AM 823 Views
Imo, it's not about "gratitude." - 21/03/2011 04:05:41 PM 724 Views
I actaully like NPR and listen to them on a regular basis - 21/03/2011 04:44:42 PM 745 Views
Well, that has all shit to do with Qatari participation. - 21/03/2011 03:02:19 AM 678 Views
Not so. - 21/03/2011 08:54:31 AM 783 Views
Bullshit. - 21/03/2011 01:37:32 PM 922 Views
Well. - 21/03/2011 06:58:19 PM 704 Views
That's odd. I'm not seeing any of this criticism. - 21/03/2011 10:55:27 PM 694 Views
There's been plenty on Twitter. - 22/03/2011 08:29:48 AM 865 Views
So let me get this straight: - 22/03/2011 06:48:53 PM 773 Views
It's not about "legitimacy" so much as it is about, to use the ugly word, propaganda. - 21/03/2011 10:33:12 PM 637 Views
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Kuwait was involved in the Iraq War? *NM* - 22/03/2011 08:35:21 PM 249 Views
They were part of the famous Coalition of the Willing *NM* - 22/03/2011 08:47:55 PM 260 Views
We got our authorization. - 20/03/2011 10:25:10 PM 845 Views
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Yeah, that's what I meant. - 21/03/2011 12:48:57 AM 670 Views
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Fuck that - 21/03/2011 12:47:54 AM 712 Views
you are always have been a fence sitter - 21/03/2011 01:09:59 AM 677 Views
Fuck Gadhafi. - 21/03/2011 05:21:29 AM 618 Views
how full of yourself are you? - 21/03/2011 12:37:47 PM 765 Views
They're not my people. - 21/03/2011 02:22:46 PM 747 Views
Wha? - 21/03/2011 03:55:51 PM 785 Views
Nope. - 21/03/2011 04:21:21 PM 773 Views
Ok. - 21/03/2011 04:30:44 PM 702 Views
Do something, get whined at. Do nothing and you get Rwanda. - 21/03/2011 11:19:38 AM 868 Views
I completely agree. *NM* - 21/03/2011 11:04:34 PM 199 Views
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Don't me!! - 21/03/2011 11:50:07 PM 690 Views

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