Will Libya become another Iraq?

[Squall Leonhart]

What do you guys think about American and UN intervention in the Libyan Civil War? Personally I think we shouldn't have gotten involved at all, it isn't our fight. But since those bombs were already created, might as well use them for good anyway instead of letting them get old and having them scrapped, right? Anyway, do you guys think this will be another long conflict? Possibly even with US troops on Libyan soil, and not just "advisers"? That's how Vietnam started, with us sending military "advisers" to help South Vietnam. Do you think this will turn into another Iraq/Afghanistan/Vietnam?

 

[CLite]

Nope.

Iraq/Afghanistan started as full scale invasions with the purpose of removing a national security threat. Vietnam was the result of a strategy of containment for Communism. There is no cold war anymore and Libya offers no threat to national security.

 

[gevorg]

Nope, just need to replace their non-cooperative government with a puppet government, take over the oil industry and screw the Libyans.

 

[JEDIYoda]

What do you guys think about American and UN intervention in the Libyan Civil War? Personally I think we shouldn't have gotten involved at all, it isn't our fight. But since those bombs were already created, might as well use them for good anyway instead of letting them get old and having them scrapped, right? Anyway, do you guys think this will be another long conflict? Possibly even with US troops on Libyan soil, and not just "advisers"? That's how Vietnam started, with us sending military "advisers" to help South Vietnam. Do you think this will turn into another Iraq/Afghanistan/Vietnam?

hahahahahaaaa....rofl....hahahahaaa NOPE!!

 

[Craig234]

What do you guys think about American and UN intervention in the Libyan Civil War? Personally I think we shouldn't have gotten involved at all, it isn't our fight. But since those bombs were already created, might as well use them for good anyway instead of letting them get old and having them scrapped, right? Anyway, do you guys think this will be another long conflict? Possibly even with US troops on Libyan soil, and not just "advisers"? That's how Vietnam started, with us sending military "advisers" to help South Vietnam. Do you think this will turn into another Iraq/Afghanistan/Vietnam?

I think you're not being a good human being saying 'let the civilians be slaughtered' we could practically help here.

I think the 'since we built the bombs may as well use them to help' logic is bad for deciding when to use violence (we already built nukes too, didn't we?)

And I don't think we're looking at a Vietnam with Obama. Vietnam was limited under Kennedy, it didn't become a major war until the government changed.

Sure, if we elected someone who wanted a big war in Libya in 2012 and Congress backed it, it could happen like in Vietnam. But I don't think so with Obama.

 

[Murloc]

There isn't a real terroristic tradition, in algeria they have some terrorism but they still manage to keep control.
The autoritarian regimes of maghreb were or are all puppet governments created in the cold war, and are laical and enemy al-quaeda. They didn't care about religion, just money and power.

As soon as gheddafi gets killed, the rebels will take over, then we'll see if it will become a democracy (with all the risks associated with freedom, namely extremism, but then they'll be able to keep violence in check just like the dictators did) or just another autoritarian regime.

It could become like Iraq, but honestly I don't think they are as batshit crazy as there. Rules are much more relaxed there, people drink their beers.
Years of laical regime and european influence limit the bullshit.

 

[SamurAchzar]

No, not in that sense, but Libya will become another Iraq. Not by US intervention (zero chance for visible ground presence there other than CIA meddlers, "military advisers" and some hit squads) but by separate factions and tribe batting each other. Syria is headed in the same way and Egypt could be too if the military elite loses grip (US will intervene there if it goes into an all out civil war due to the military hardware it sold).

I see no chance of any deeper US intervention. Perhaps US understood it's the sucker for fighting the wars everyone else should be fighting; even if it didn't, it's up to ears in debt and with a democratic president about to enter an election year, the odds are marginal.

And if US DOES go to war with someone I'm sure Iran ranks pretty high on that list. It's far more dangerous than Libya and Syria combined.

 

[brainhulk]

this is another good chance for us to grab mo' oil