| Kasz216 said:
Except when most people shouted "No war ever" then said... "Nevermind." There really isn't much difference at all between Libya and Iraq outside of direct commiting of invasion forces. Not even ground forces, since the CIA are "on the ground" as of current... an apparently have been for weeks.
Heck, he did this without even notifying the 8 people in congress he is supposed to notify when he acts covertly. I guess he wasn't lieing when he said he envied Reagan. I mean, everything about this war seems... worse. In every regard then the other two. If the rebels are to be believed... The army is slipping through the lulls in the airstrikes already. Seems like the UN is going to be forced to decide to either go farther, or end up with the slaughter happening anyway but us having bombed Libya for a while. |
The main difference between this and Iraq is that in this case there was a clear and immediate danger of a massacre of the Libyan people. In the Iraq case there was a tyrant who was being no more tyrantish than he had been for the last however many years.
Some interventions are acceptable to me - first Iraq war, Afghanistan, Somalia and now Libya. Others are not because they are essentially baseless - Vietnam, second Iraq war.
