Libya is a distinct entity from every other country in the world. Libyans have asked us to get involved. Just because an accident of history has Libyans speaking the same language as people in the Levant and the Gulf, it doesn't give people in those areas some sort of magical legitimacy that we lack.
Aside from that, it IS the West getting involved, whether or not Qatar contributes a few planes. They know it and we know it. The point is that this time, it's more like the West intervening to stop the killing in Bosnia rather than invading Iraq in 2003.
Aside from that, it IS the West getting involved, whether or not Qatar contributes a few planes. They know it and we know it. The point is that this time, it's more like the West intervening to stop the killing in Bosnia rather than invading Iraq in 2003.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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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*NM*
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 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
813 Views
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 completely agree. *NM*
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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*NM*
"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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