Regretting Libya now?
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Re: Regretting Libya now?
Dog shit and war graves. Its all the same.
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Re: Regretting Libya now?
In comparison to how bad things are in Egypt. Libya and Tunisia might not turn out too bad, fundamentalist Muslims may not end up controlling the country .
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Yeah, but for how long?Feck wrote:In comparison to how bad things are in Egypt. Libya and Tunisia might not turn out too bad, fundamentalist Muslims may not end up controlling the country .
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Depends on how long it takes them to figure out that fundamentalist Islam is an invention of The West designed to keep the Muslim parts of the world technologically and economically backward for as long as possible.FBM wrote:Yeah, but for how long?Feck wrote:In comparison to how bad things are in Egypt. Libya and Tunisia might not turn out too bad, fundamentalist Muslims may not end up controlling the country .
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Regretting Libya now?
Robert_S wrote:Depends on how long it takes them to figure out that fundamentalist Islam is an invention of The West designed to keep the Muslim parts of the world technologically and economically backward for as long as possible.FBM wrote:Yeah, but for how long?Feck wrote:In comparison to how bad things are in Egypt. Libya and Tunisia might not turn out too bad, fundamentalist Muslims may not end up controlling the country .
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Sounds about right. We just need to infiltrate some tinfoil headgear afficionados into the Muslim ranks. As gullible as they are, it'll just be a matter of time...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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How about now? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 97041.html
Or, is Libya really what a successful operation looks like....?
Perhaps it is a cluster fuck that doesn't get much play in the news media because it doesn't fit the narrative that we're doing things smarter and better now that the good guys are in power.
Or, is Libya really what a successful operation looks like....?
Perhaps it is a cluster fuck that doesn't get much play in the news media because it doesn't fit the narrative that we're doing things smarter and better now that the good guys are in power.
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We're not still there, our soldiers trying in vain to do the right thing while our politicians are trying in vain to find a way out that doesn't make us look like assholes. That's a step in the right direction.Coito ergo sum wrote:How about now? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 97041.html
Or, is Libya really what a successful operation looks like....?
Perhaps it is a cluster fuck that doesn't get much play in the news media because it doesn't fit the narrative that we're doing things smarter and better now that the good guys are in power.
Not even getting involved when we don't have to would be even better.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Regretting Libya now?
Yes, we bombed it into a cluster fuck and left.Robert_S wrote:We're not still there, our soldiers trying in vain to do the right thing while our politicians are trying in vain to find a way out that doesn't make us look like assholes. That's a step in the right direction.Coito ergo sum wrote:How about now? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 97041.html
Or, is Libya really what a successful operation looks like....?
Perhaps it is a cluster fuck that doesn't get much play in the news media because it doesn't fit the narrative that we're doing things smarter and better now that the good guys are in power.
Not even getting involved when we don't have to would be even better.
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