LIBIA italy question? or europe question?

[Theshark888]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Countries that have healthy democracies, like Switzerland and Scandinavian states, are usually based on that.

Why do you think that these states are able to act like this? Because they do not have a care in the world and also do not care about the world either.
They are homogeneous states, with little outside interaction or ideas. They are the enablers of dictators and repressive regimes also. At least we pick a side and don't just go with the flavor of the month

[Ploughman]

Originally Posted by Theshark888

At least we pick a side and don't just go with the flavor of the month

Oh sure you do, everybody does eventually.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Theshark888

Why do you think that these states are able to act like this? Because they do not have a care in the world and also do not care about the world either.
They are homogeneous states, with little outside interaction or ideas. They are the enablers of dictators and repressive regimes also. At least we pick a side and don't just go with the flavor of the month

Lol when I saw this post I immeditely thought about going to get the picture of Rummsfeld huggin sadam. Someone beat me to it (but only the handshake pic). Your charactarization of other countries is completely offbase.

Also Libya has significant oil fields and reserves, which might be a reason why the US would not want to leap into action overeagerly I would say?

[nearmiss]

Heliocon... You popped in new content, which should have some response

You said:
Dont have time to respond more right now, sorry. I would suggest though that you go read a range of commentary on international events in order to avoid the bs the american media (especially fox) likes to spoon feed the public who still believes we won the vietnam war,

I have never mentioned fox - you are out of line on that

I don't believe America won the Vietnam war - I recall the "Michelin" rubber plantations had deals and couldn't be bombed and the VC were using them as secure positions.

I recall the VC were unloading SAM missiles into Hanoi harbor and American pilots would be court martial, if they struck them.

I recall VN where the American politicians served up over 50,000 American soldiers to the graveyards.

I recall the Khymer Rouge in Cambodia and the murderous communist takeover.

I think that the American failure in VN must have been a horror story for the VN people when America pulled out, when I consider what the communists did to the people of Cambodia.

You said:
thinks Iraq had wmds (which they didnt and the arms inspectors were orderd out by the US) or they had ties to terrorists (which they didnt, because Saddam was a member of the Baith (sp) party which was secular because he was Shiite and Al Qaeda was Sunni and they hated each other with a passion).

Making war with Iraq on a lie was an unspeakable crime.

I become angry when I think of how many people have died in Iraq in a war predicated upon a lie.

I don't think you need to respond, because I pretty well agreed with you in this response.