Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
That has always been the odd contradiction on medicinal marijuana, that states can do whatever they please but it won't stop the FBI from picking up anyone with pot, authorized on the state level or not
Disappointing on Obama's part, though, since the political will is actually more towards legalized marijuana now than when he made that campaign promise, which also makes it a vexing decision.
Re: Obama. Much of what he's backpedaled on does bother me as a proper leftist, though some of it I understand (namely Libya. He didn't "start" that war, Kasz, that war was ongoing, and it was a ideological bind for the west to sit back and let these people who professed a wish for democracy be slaughtered by an old foe of the West, and is a necessary commitment), but like hell i'm going to vote for a Republican, or a tone-neutral libertarian, since i'm an old school statist socialist with leanings of third-way fascism, and i find libertarianism to be just as poor a choice as a more state-oriented conservatism |
No he entered the US in it. Which was even more pointless. At least Iraq and Afghanistan had douches in power that nobody was trying to get rid of.
Libya... we could of did NOTHING and just let europe take care of it for once.
Besides, It's not like there aren't other people getting slaughtered by enemies of the west while we do nothing.
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Not really. At least not in the context of an active civil war that is something that could be intervened in readily. I mean the Burmese have been playing cat-and-mouse with the Karin and the Kachin for decades, and the Laotians have an on-again-off-again thing against the Hmong, though neither of them are really our enemies (for balance of power purposes against the Vietnamese, we're even slightly friendly with Laos), but nobody else out there is just out-and-out waging full on war against a group of their people that is professing a desire for democracy (though i'm fully aware that the Libyan Rebels in this case probably don't want democracy, or at least don't want the kind of democracy we want)
I also agree that Europe should be pulling more of the weight in there, but i disagree in that the US should have a role either way
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Sudan? Ethnic cleansing has been going on there for a couple months at least. (Again!)
Real actual ethnic cleansing and not.... possible expected ethnic cleansing.
I mean, don't forget the rebels on the day it's being recognized as getting their own country.
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I had forgotten about South Sudan's imminent independence (which really doesn't seem to be happening). The media seems to have completely forgotten Darfur
But we seem to consider that one Africa's problem for whatever reason, maybe since Sudan never really did anything to us (aside from harboring bin Laden for a while), though we are intervening in Somalia to stop al-Shebab
The decision-making process isn't perfect, but i still maintain that it was an ideological bind, partly becuase the media was really paying attention to what was going on in Libya, and because Libya has had more relations with the West in general (poor relations, but still)
