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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
Germany, If England and France jumped off a bridge would you follow?
Like drugs, Just because everybody else is doing it doesn't make it cool.  |
It's very easy to fall back on the 19th century notion that one State should not interfere in the internal affairs of another to justify doing nothing and letting Khadafi massacre his own people.
But in the 21st century, where everyone is wired in to everyone else on earth and we all know in real time what is happening, you can't on the one hand encourage democratic reforms and aspirations and on the other, just stand by on the sidelines when the whole thing goes south and say
"well, it's really none of our business" or
"well, the replacement will probably be worse".
We have had many situations in the past, Irak 1991, Rwanda, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Sudan, where long afterwards, people have said that they should have done something.
Well the time is now and the place is Libya: Do you let Khadafi reconquer the whole of Libya and put to death ten of thousands of opponents or do you say, enough is enough, we are not going to stand by and let another tinpot dictator get away with murder.
Khadafi has got to go!
We'll worry about the replacement when he's gone.
