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View Poll Results: will gaddafi prevail?
He'll emerge victorious and or his kid(s) will continue the dynasty 7 41.18%
He'll run away and rule remotely until things are settled 1 5.88%
He'll be squashed like a grape by the rebels 1 5.88%
He'll be taken down after the rest of the world gets involved 8 47.06%
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:19 PM   #1
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Are you seriously saying that the UK can't kick Libya's ass in a fight because it lacks resources?
UK has been so severely depleted with unnecessary wars that the UK cannot even supply fighter aircraft for (what will be) their only remaining aircraft carrier.

UK is so severely depleted as to fear risk to even one Tornado aircraft (at maybe $300million per platform).

Libya is first and foremost a problem addressed by the local nations. France is acting because other closer nations who should be taking more responsibility (Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Niger, Sudan, and Egypt) are not or cannot.

An example of the new world order that George Sr defined (despite extremist naysaying from his own party). How long is required for world people to learn lessons from history? Slowly, the world will mock extremists and ostriches by learning fundamental lessons from history. Learn from history that define responsibility and the requirements of government. These lessons are mostly and still unknown. Too new to so many people. Even 70 years ago, the American government would do to their people what is today called political corruption. These social ethic and international responsibility are concepts very new throughout the world – even in America.

The French are simply doing what most nations (and people) in the world have not yet learned. A nation has certain responsibilities to citizens in neighboring states.

Americans are only a support function. Tiny destroyers and submarines launched cruise missiles. What Clinton did in the 1990s to (we later learned) completely defang Saddam (because Saddam was a threat to no one). What Reagan did to Kaddafi. What Ford did in Cambodia. What George Sr did in Panama. What Reagan did in Lebanon. What Clinton did in the Balkans. What Carter attempted in Iran. What George Sr did in Somalia. Where is any of this similar to an unjustified invasion of Iraq? What Obama did was simply support France, in part, because so many other nations did not (ie Italy) or could not.
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:32 PM   #2
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US has been so severely depleted with unnecessary wars that the US should not supply fighter aircraft for (what will be) their only remaining aircraft carrier.
Fixed it.
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:47 PM   #3
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Fixed it.
Your editting makes no sense. The UK is down to its last aircraft carrier. And may need even French fighter pilots and planes to arm it.
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:49 PM   #4
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Your editting makes no sense.
Your entire life makes no sense. And 99.9% of your posts.


So there.

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Old 03-20-2011, 02:52 PM   #5
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Your entire life makes no sense. And 99.9% of your posts.
These are topics for adults. You should not be reading what is too advanced for you.

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Old 03-20-2011, 10:44 PM   #6
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These are topics for adults. You should not be reading what is too advanced for you.
Then recuse yourself at once, or publicly confess that you are a grotesque hypocrite, wholly incapable of politics, and have never enjoyed an adulthood. You are the very last person to be talking about "topics for adults."

I KNOW how babyish you get when you are crossed. So does everyone here. I shall demonstrate it by crossing you now, you amateur twit. Your entire mentality is designed and constructed to elicit the contempt of the virtuous, and owing to your posts, my contempt for your mentality is nine times bottomless, and nine times beyond that. TW, you are carefully, systemically worthless, and if you were a horse they'd've shot you.
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