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Originally Posted by Mavericks Rockets Fan
Right, because the more sensible thing to do is let that madman massacre his own people.  |
Those people were rebelling against their government - does a government no longer have the right to defend itself?
If Americans revolted against our government, you can be damn sure they'd
react with violence... Do you really think the British and French would invade Washington D.C. over that, or do you think the US government would be completely justified in defending itself?
Also, reports are coming out of Libya that US warplanes just bombed a hospital... Is it somehow better for a foreign government to indiscriminately kill civilians than a sovereign government? I bet the dead don't see a difference.
Sure Gaddafi is a madman, but if that's reason enough to take him out, you'd think we would have done it sometime in the last 41 years... Is now a good time to mention that Libya is the 3rd-largest oil producer in Africa, 17th-largest in the world? It's a hell of a "silver lining" that all of America's enemies happen to be sitting on the world's largest oil reserves...