Why Libya?

[dib8rman]

ManusJustus said:

dib8rman said:

ManusJustus said:

Q: Why is the US in Libya?

A: Proximity to Europe plus oil.

Don't get me wrong though, I hope the US and NATO destroy Ghadafi's and the rebels get to extract revenge for 40 years of tyranny.  The opportunity to get rid of this mad man by assisting his own people who rose up against him is an opportunity we couldn't pass up.

Most of them aren't his own people, they are for the greater part illegal immigrants - some of whom moved to Libya from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia only to fight US troops in Iraq.

Just a detail.

What?  Doesn't make sense no matter which way I go about it.

Tell me about it, there are Libyan citizens involved in the revolt as well but a large number of the ones fighting in rebellion are illegal immigrants to Libya.

Not that it makes a difference he's still killing folks over there, but by all rights he can view them as an invading force and those citzens as traitors, the semantics boil down to the same practicality.

The ultimate agenda though is to disolve the mans regime and that is working, I'm moving into absolutely sure that the west chose the wrong enemy to back. It's a semantics game in the end, they want democracy which means they want an Islamic government; how is that democratic and not theocratic? Because thats what they want. Most people stop at representation of the common folk when understanding democracy and do not see that as much as democracy protects the people from government it also when executed properly protects the people from themselves.