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Originally Posted by Underdog
No sh!t, Sherlock - nobody debated America's system vs. Libya's. Maybe if you hadn't cherry-picked my post, we wouldn't be discussing the word "dictator" and instead be talking about a government's right to deal with uprising.
Libya is not America. They don't have to play by our rules... but our government has certainly been guilty of using violence towards it's own people in a time of peaceful protest, no different than Libya, so that's hardly justification for us to go to war with them...
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And you didn't cherry pick? Isolated occasions where the US government fired on peaceful protesters doesn't count as
consistently doing it. Gaddafi has been doing it for decades. Americans can feel safe protesting against their government, Libyans can't and it is NOT EVEN CLOSE. Your analogy does not hold weight.
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Originally Posted by Underdog
This is about oil, no different than all of our Middle East interests in the past 150 years.
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Of course it is partly about oil and partly because NOBODY liked Gaddafi. Everybody wants to see that guy gone and are glad to help the Libyan people in their rebellion against him (well, except for maybe Hugo Chavez and a few others but you get my point).
But for Bahrain and Yemen on the other hand, you won't see action taken against them since they are our allies.