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On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:01:39 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:37:01 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:23:59 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:49:25 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:12:51 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:11:13 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:24:34 -0400, wrote:

I agree we should have simply come home, right after desert storm in
1991. Any further involvement was just going to result in more
involvement.

We did what was appropriate at the time of the UN resolution. Clinton
did as best he could, and he certainly didn't make things worse.

What was the logical conclusion of this operation going to be?
Were we still going to be "flying the box" there 20 years later
enforcing that NFZ and bombing them a few times a week?

According to you..

Which war have we EVER come home from? (excluding Vietnam and Grenada)

It sure is nice when isolationism is your only argument.

What is your argument, that the US should be in the middle of every
civil war on the planet? We are certainly moving in that direction.

You just got done saying we didn't do enough in Africa. Which is it?
Personally, I believe that we should intervene in some situations and
not in others. The regional versions of the UN (e.g., the Arab League)
need to play a bigger role in policing their own regions.

No you are not reading me correctly. I don't think we should be in any
of these civil wars but if they are still saying this is the
humanitarian thing to do their concern does seem to be in inverse
proportion to the melanin in the skin of the victim

I agree. It's a double standard. That doesn't make doing nothing in
Libya the right choice.

We have had a horrible record of outcome too. The best we have been
able to accomplish is putting our troops between battling factions and
leaving them there forever.

The real question will be how long we can afford to be the world's
policeman.

I would rather we go broke trying, although that's not going to
happen, than just crawl into a hole and tell the rest of the world to
go to hell.

Feel free to relive the isolation policies of yesteryear.

Thanks I will

Yes, it's obvious. And, that turned out really well for the world
didn't it.