I say take it one step further and assasinate Qaddafi. If there is one person out there that deserves it, its him. My dad and I had this argument two days ago. he wanted the no fly zone and I didnt because of this very reason (people shitting on the US for taking action they were begged to take). I say we bomb all their military bases and equipment and make sure Qaddafi is so royally screwed he goes hiding in a cave like Saddam. what did the Arab league expect from the no fly zone, a shower of flower petal?
...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.
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.
Aisha - formerly known as randschicka
So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya...
20/03/2011 04:38:25 PM
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The Arab league guy has gone out saying he was misquoted.
20/03/2011 05:26:21 PM
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China and Russian abstained instead of voting No, which is odd.
20/03/2011 05:32:02 PM
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Workplace politics writ large. With more blood. Gads. My hermit instinct is rearing it's head. *NM*
20/03/2011 08:35:35 PM
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I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights..
20/03/2011 10:15:59 PM
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Re: I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights..
20/03/2011 11:12:11 PM
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Misquoted to the extent of ordering an emergency meeting of the Arab League uh?
20/03/2011 05:41:45 PM
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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
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There is a lot of politics going on in the Arab League, from what I've read
20/03/2011 05:52:31 PM
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That is a big miscalculation.
20/03/2011 06:10:34 PM
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Not really
20/03/2011 06:23:52 PM
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I dunno.
20/03/2011 06:59:18 PM
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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
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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
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We have had weeks to act
20/03/2011 11:15:15 PM
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The French hit those vehicles in that military convoy 10 miles from Benghazi center.
21/03/2011 03:01:06 AM
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Because when you get involved in what is, unfortunately, an internal matter,
20/03/2011 11:18:16 PM
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Qatar is not part of Libya so it would still be outsiders interfering in an internal matter
21/03/2011 12:25:30 AM
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I have to ask:
21/03/2011 03:13:31 AM
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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
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Well, that has all shit to do with Qatari participation.
21/03/2011 03:02:19 AM
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Not so.
21/03/2011 08:54:31 AM
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Bullshit.
21/03/2011 01:37:32 PM
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Well.
21/03/2011 06:58:19 PM
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That's odd. I'm not seeing any of this criticism.
21/03/2011 10:55:27 PM
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It's not about "legitimacy" so much as it is about, to use the ugly word, propaganda.
21/03/2011 10:33:12 PM
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The only support I've seen Qaddhafi get is from the rogues gallery of world pariahs.
21/03/2011 11:01:54 PM
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Is the Qatar involvement as important as the Kuwaiti involvement in the Iraq War?
22/03/2011 06:57:27 PM
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I don't see a situation where this does not turn into a land war.
20/03/2011 10:51:41 PM
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it is already is a land war if you ask the people on the ground doing the fighting for weeks
21/03/2011 12:34:10 AM
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Fuck that
21/03/2011 12:47:54 AM
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Fuck Gadhafi.
21/03/2011 05:21:29 AM
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how full of yourself are you?
21/03/2011 12:37:47 PM
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They're not my people.
21/03/2011 02:22:46 PM
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Wha?
21/03/2011 03:55:51 PM
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Nope.
21/03/2011 04:21:21 PM
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Ok.
21/03/2011 04:30:44 PM
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I challenge you to point out where I'd advocated killing anyone but him and the military...
21/03/2011 04:45:05 PM
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Do something, get whined at. Do nothing and you get Rwanda.
21/03/2011 11:19:38 AM
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I would reply...
21/03/2011 11:22:14 PM
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It is only natural that the girl preferred me to you, but.......
21/03/2011 11:36:33 PM
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And you old enough to be her father, you should be ashamed...
22/03/2011 12:17:55 AM
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She said she prefers experience to enthusiasm.......
22/03/2011 12:24:05 AM
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Funny. She told me it was all down to the size of your.....wallet. *NM*
22/03/2011 12:33:33 AM
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"You old enough to be her father" is usually followed with "I'm impressed and envious"
22/03/2011 06:50:27 PM
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