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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Who do you declare war on if the attacks weren't carried out by the Libyan government?
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You can't as they wear no uniform of any country. They could stand right next to you and you'd never know if they were your enemy or not. Brings you right back to Viet Nam and every war since then. Look at Russa in Afghanistan for 20 years and them finally realisng they couldn't win. Same with the US now, but we haven't learnt from others mistakes. Know too that the Libyan government could have stopped this act, but they didn't. They are also a part of the 'unkowns' mixed in and working along side with the ones waging war on us.
Think about this. We always try to helps those fighting against oppression, only to have them turn on us in the end. Makes no difference if it's a fight against Communism or terrorist rebels in some 3rd world country.
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
And that's the whole problem with this Middle East thing. Who would we declare war on? The people that we are trying to keep out of power do not have a nation, or even a national identity.
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Exactly! When you do not know who it is that wages war on you, you have lost that war right from the start.