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Originally Posted by Platapus
Sounds like a good way to escalate. Unless we have a NEO concern, I don't think there is anything in Libya worth a single American military life.
If we have US citizens there, we should get them out. But I see no reason for the US to become involved if there are other nations with issues. Each nation should handle their issues themselves.
We are not the world's police force nor are we the saviors of all nations.
The last thing we need is to get involved in another ill defined shooting war.
Besides, just like in Egypt, we don't know exactly what the "other side" will do if they "win".
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So using the same reasoning why did the US ask for the global community to fight terrorism together?
Your reasoning to be honest will help make a strong anti US sentiment in the new regimes about to come out from these states. China will be hopeful that that is exactly what the US will do. To do nothing. To be apathetic.
What's happening in the Arab world is an eye opener that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. The evolutions that's happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen is a proof that these Arab people only want their rights respected as a dignified human being instead suffering longer oppression. Many of them actually look to the west for help and putting pressure.
Honestly a free society which unable to appreciate another society struggle to be free from oppression doesn't deserve theirs or could very well have lost theirs.
If some people in the US government think that US foreign policy should not be tied with moral considerations then it must expect the same principle to be applied against them. That is to say okay to terrorism at least as long as the victim being the United States of America and or her allies.