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Originally Posted by theking
If the NATO countries involved are not enough to get the job done...I am satisfied more will be called upon.
Having troops and forward bases deployed around the world is what has made the U.S. the only military superpower on the earth...but of course one can argue that one does not want to be a citizen of a superpower.
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No, I just look at the money we are wasting and the fact that we do not belong in other countries.
And just saying that we only need five to get the job done is not what you said earlier that it was our "obligation" as a member of NATO. Obviously it is not. We are doing it because we want to.
I'm very uneasy about all of this and have been since the Vietnam War which was also an illegal war. We haven't been in a "real" constitutionally legal war since WWII
But we've sure as hell fought and killed a lot of people in a lot of places.
I know that we are a "good" people in the United States. But our govt.? They are, and always have been a conniving power hungry group of men. And I don't think we should have people being killed all over the world so we can all feel good by saying we are a SuperPower.
Bin Laden apparently didn't get that memo and all of our SuperPower military can't find him after all these years. But we've had more of our people killed invading countries than he killed on 9-11.
If we're "Winning", it's more of a Charlie Sheen "win" than a real one. I'm of the opinion that we are creating more terrorists around the world everytime we do shit like this.
We should have stayed out of Libya's internal affairs.
IF we had stayed out...there's a good possibility that Gaddafi would have done something stupid like a massacre...then the people really might have risen up against him. A few hundred people MIGHT have been killed. That's the price you pay when you try to overthrow a govt.
But now? We've armed a bunch of "rebels", and bombed the hell out of the country. How many TRUE innocent civilians are now being killed? And no...I'm not talking about what the news media tries to perpetuate: According to CNN, it seems that EVERY rebel with a gun shooting that gets killed is an "innocent civilian". lol