On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Gruss Gott <[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.
We don't need anyones permission. The UN is useless. I'm not sure why you're tasking me with this, I never said anything about troops on the ground or no-fly. I said it sucks to wait for a leader to emerge and then pat him on the back like we were with him all along. > (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. Cold war mentality? Really? > (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. We are also loaded with oil. But to claim we can't fight any wars because our cold war enemies like to watch us get weaker is a silly argument. One you've made repeatedly over the years. > 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. What a cowardly statement. So you have no principle at ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:334929 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
