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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
not necessarily, who are these dudes, where do they come from? In African politics in particular and in Libya as well, its generally warlords. If you look at what this rebellion has evolved into in the past months, its just that. Compare it to say what happened concurrently in Ivory Coast, yet another unfortunately typical African situation. A lot of lives were lost in cruel and callous pitch battles in the street. For a few weeks it was as bad as it every was in Ivory Coast, which is a country that has seen no lack of hardships. Now the international community and foreign military under UN blue helmets gave Outtara and his own warlords and militias the thumbs up, and he moved in his forces even with French air support. Now he and his warlords are firmly in power with full international support. Is Outtaro a better asshole than Gbagbo, of course, it goes without saying. However in the end, what does it really all come down to? The same thing as in Libya..
And if Gaddafi is such a heartless Hitler and is purely humanitarian intervention, then why is Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria entirely off the hook for what is turning out to be far more atrocious crises. In Libya, Gaddafi is fighting a civil war against an armed uprising, where as in those other places I mentioned genuine, unarmed, civil protesters have been slaughtered in the street by the hundreds now just in a few passing weeks 
I do not necessarily say the foreign military should go invade anywhere else, after all, what have the foreign militaries managed to do in Libya? Have they stopped anyone from killing anybody? Nonsense, in fact quite the opposite, the foreign militaries have been having a blast doing what it is that militaries do best, killing people
No, I bring up Syria and Yemen and Ivory Coast to point out exactly to the point that there is something blatantly wrong in Libya, and it looks like it has a lot more do to with money than anything else, after all, there are a dozen larger scale humanitarian crises going on concurrently and yet somehow Libya takes the top priority consistently. And then these rebels have the nerve to ask for $3 BILLION with a straight face? Its literally unprecedented, that is some serious ferria.. |
Plenty of unarmed people have been killed in Libya too
I want to answer your point about "a dozen larger scale humanitarian crises going on concurrently and yet somehow Libya takes the top priority consistently"
thats a great point, and a point that never goes away. But the thing about international politics is the events in Libya have much more of a pervcussive effect on the region; the solution in Syria changes with the situation in Libya, as does the most important state in the region; Iran
My ideals are that the Ivory Coast, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and other African nations under similar oppressive regimes become free. I believe in universal human rights, the people in those countries deserve the liberties you and I have. The fact is that the Arab/Persian world is politically more important in the advancement of those liberties.
If i could push a button and bring an end to the war in Darfur, even if it meant i had to swear loyalty to Jesus Effin Christ, id do it. Fact is we live ina world where evil people have power.