Do I hear 4? How about 5? FIVE front war!

[chucky2]

Why would it seem odd? 2012 is coming up...

 

[Steeplerot]

Obama should just annex the world. Then we can just pass it over to the corporations and live in libertopia. yay!

 

[bfdd]

Obama should just annex the world.

A one world government is end game anyways.

 

[Steeplerot]

A one world government is end game anyways.

Or the start depending on your worldview/outlook of humanity.

Nationalism can be just as divisive/harmful as religion to the species future.

 

[bfdd]

Or the start depending on your worldview/outlook of humanity.

Nationalism can be just as divisive/harmful as religion.

start of what? I don't mean humanity ends with a one world government, if that's what you thought I meant.

I also agree, nationalism can be just as divisive and harmful as religion.

 

[Illyusha]

The republicans that supported the fool that created 2 of the wars should go picket the white house, otherwise STFU.

 

[Steeplerot]

start of what? I don't mean humanity ends with a one world government, if that's what you thought I meant.

Don't mind me, I am watching/on a old Carl Sagan videos tonight. Just kinda throwing thoughts out.

 

[Zebo]

A one world government is end game anyways.

Countries are breaking up more and more. Hell you have some russian piltical analyst saying USA will balkanize after we go broke.

 

[bfdd]

Countries are breaking up more and more. Hell you have some russian piltical analyst saying USA will balkanize after we go broke.

possibly

 

[boomerang]

Countries are breaking up more and more. Hell you have some russian piltical analyst saying USA will balkanize after we go broke.

Well, we've got the water, bitches. All those dry states can go pound sand. Heh-heh.

 

[Broheim]

You're right we don't, we also didn't push for the use of force either as it was the Euros (mainly France but England as well) who wanted military action. This action is being done at the behest of Euros (again mainly the French) who do have interests and concerns in the region (North Africa). Thus the mistake people are making in this conversation is attributing our action as a directly linked self-serving action (its more indirectly linked with aiding the French) instead of the actual point that we are instead basically doing the dirty work for the French for some odd reason. Odd because France decried our actions in Iraq but when it comes to Libya they have no issues it seems meddling in Libya and asking us for support.

Iraq =/= Libya, completely different situation...

what about the countries that DID push for action but has no interrests in Libya, are they just puppets of the evil french?

as for the oil... I'll only say this once.
when you buy your oil from a country, you want to preserve the status quo. why would you prolong a civil war that will disrupt your oil supply, instead of just having the dictator in charge wipe out the rebellion and return things to normal? if oil was a priority you wouldn't get involved and hope for a swift massmurder so your oil would be safe.
Nobody can predict the outcome of the civil war in Libya, but before we went in there Gaddafi had pushed the rebels back and was ready for the final strike... so no this IS NOT ABOUT OIL. Infact Libya's oil production will be severely hampered for the next year or two because of Airstrikes and sabotage.

 

[rudeguy]

U.S would still win.

As long as we don't go occupying countries, we can always fly in, blow everything up, and leave, as we are doing in Libya. We are not stuck in Libya, we have left Iraq except for a small force, and Afghanistan will probably remain a passive, low intensity occupation that will last for ages.

So no, we are not stuck in a multi-front war. This isn't comparable to, say, Germany fighting for survival in World War I on multiple fronts.

what?

 

[Linflas]

what?

I believe he is referring to the fact that we have removed all "combat" troops from Iraq. We still have around 50,000 "non-combat" troops remaining there in support roles.