Why are we involving in an Arab tribal war in Libya? These "rebels" are just a bunch of opprtunists taking advantage of the pandemic insurrections in the region to oust a dictator of the "other" tribe and install a dictator from their own tribe. This isn't about Democracy or freedom...these rebels don't even know the meanings of the words.
Stay out of Libya. This is a rebellion, not by democratic forces, but by the next group of Arab thugs. None of our business.
You presume too much. The flags they wave with the Crescent moon and star...is that a symbol of freedom to you? Trading off one totalitarian system for another is no fight for us. We're not wanted, our weapons are. Our "Freedoms" are literally told to "Go to Hell," so they aren't what these people want either. Where do we fit in to this scenario? Merely as a people yet to be conquered ~ Not emulated. No. Ours is not to help trade one Hitler for another. I have no problem with them getting rid of Quack-Daffy but we have no dog in this fight and should keep our distance.
Right you are. Even if the rebels are "good" by Western standards, they would be superseded by Islamic radicals anyway. A realist foreign policy understands that we have no vital interests in Libya because there is nobody worth supporting.
The prospect of the departure of Kadafy (or however he spells his last name lately) causes me no tears. He has been a narcisstistic thug from Day One. But his replacement, almost assuredly, will be no better. And before he materializes, get set for massive quantities of chaos and bloodshed -- in other words, Iraq II.
Libya’s legitimate leader Moammar Gaddafi has offered amnesty and some other concessions to anti-government rebels who turn in their weapons. In a speech in Tripoli to supporters and foreign reporters, he promised that opponents who renounced violence and gave up their movement would be “forgiven and not pursued. He also stuck to his claim that al-Qaeda, The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters were leading the rebels behind the unrest in his country.
Sounds like an Arab civil war to me? Why are we even interested let alone involved?
Just brilliant. We are bogged down in Afghanistan and now we are going into Libya too. Just friggin moronic. Why? So we can help the Muslim Brotherhood come into power there? So we can get more young patriots killed doing work that the elites never send there kids to do? We get no oil from Libya, they sell it all to Europe. We do NOT have a dog in this fight. Friggin unbelievable. So some limp-root old politicians can feel like they still matter.