Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
I think that there is a lot of fence sitting going on.
People want to see which way the the wind is blowing before flying their kite. No one wants to risk unnecessarily upsetting an oil rich despot.
"Humpdy Dumpdy fell the **** off a wall and busted his ***, choose a **** side."
Don't remeber where I exactly heard this qoute but it runs right along those lines.
Three thing from all this are going through my mind right now on the situation.
* The news is critisizing President Obama for taking so "long" to use military force. Long? The U.S. was launching missiles at that very statement.
* And what about the East? Does China or Russia or another world power in the oppisite hemisphere carry out mercy missions like this around the world? Seriously I am interested to know if this is a purely western phenomenon.
* And lastly what makes Libya so important? And why does the West care so much now? The one thing going through my head from all this "To prevent atrocities from being committed" is like hearing the French, as well as U.S. or other nations that approved on the UN council is really saying this:
"One of us wants something and we just don't want to make it obivious what it is, oh and we might save some lives in the process"
That's all I am hearing with every press conference here.
Over 30 civil conflicts and mulitple genocides in Africa and the destruction of mulitple goverment bodies and the instailation of many oppressive and brutal ones, and it just seems so strange now that the West Cares so much.
It's just odd to me, maybe some one here can through up some major reasons the western powers feel like they need to Calvary up once again.
I am not saying I don't support their efforts, just I do not want to see my country have another war to fight, let alone some one else's, or see another anti American coalition of terror groups gather up to attack the very powers that saved them...
Can't say that hasn't happened already, Look at Afghanistan.