Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Way out of there scope. We shouldn't care what they think. >
> When people are fighting for democracy it's always a gamble they will > lose, but it's wrong to just watch and wait for a winner before taking > sides. > > We have to care what China and Russia think for a few key reasons: (1.) There's no UN resolution without them which would mean we'd have to lead a coalition of the willing. In leading this coalition we'd bomb stuff. In bombing stuff we'd kill innocents (or we'd be portrayed as having done so). The bodies would be paraded on Al Jeezera. The headlines would read, "US kills Arab women and children to steal our oil". This would not be a good thing. (2.) China and Russia may very well decide to fund or outright join the other side - whoever that is. We have no idea who is fighting whom or what they're fighting for; be it democracy or a better mouse trap. We don't know because we suck at understanding Middle Eastern culture. (3.) China and Russia would LOVE to have us invade Libya, and would LOVE to watch us flail around in the desert burning dollars and lives. They're both loaded with oil while we're not. Any US involvement in foreign wars directly benefits them both. It would be a huge gift to them. You don't open your mouth til you know what the shot is, and right now we don't even know what it might be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334924 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
