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Canuck57[_9_]

On 20/10/2011 7:26 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:12:03 -0400, X `
wrote:

In March, you Republicans said Obama didn't act quickly enough and with
enough force in going after Gaddafi.

Then when Obama acted, you said Obama acted too hastily, acted
unconstitutionally and needed to be impeached.

Today, you say Obama didn't act soon enough.

Pobrecitos. You can't handle the fact that **** gets done nowadays. In 6
months, Libya went from status quo to Gaddafi dead, something at which
Saint Ronny Raegan tried and failed. Osama bin Laden is dead, something
Dubya couldn't do in 8 years. Now, with US and NATO assistance, the
Libyan government has changed hands and Gaddafi is dead.

The open question will be whether we are actually better off with him
gone. As the Clinton people used to say about Saddam, we had Qdaffy
"contained". (a lot more than Saddam)

This whole Arab Spring thing can still blow up in our face if these
guys don't turn out to be the peace loving people we hope they will
be. I can remember people talking about what a great guy Castro was
because he defeated that evil dictator Batista and how he was going to
bring freedom to the island.. That lasted about 6 weeks until Castro
said, "Oh wait. Maybe I am really a communist" (after denying it for
years) and started nationalizing the whole island. Two years later we
damned near had WWIII over Cuba.

This time it might be WWIII over Israel.

Actually here is what I think is happening.

More or less most leaders in the middle east had US support to get their
power or maintain it. Even Saudi. The policy was lots of little
fiefdom countries not run by radical Islam types.

Now the policy is to depose them, and let the Arab/middle eat unity as a
radical Islamic nation. I think Saudi was intending to be the center
of this, but realized all too late it was going to be Muslim
Brotherhood. So like Egypt, democracy has ended, Muslim Brotherhood now
have it as a Muslim/Islam state ignoring justice for the non-Muslims as
they are persecuted.

Arab Spring alright, it is the rise of the Islam/Sharia super-state.
Just might take a few more year to find most of the Arab world is no
longer US friendly at all. Iraq and Afghanistan will fall hours after
Americans leave. Be worse than Vietnam.

A huge long term problem. Iran and Pakistan now have nukes. USA broke,
Islam unifying slowly having their AK-47 elections....

Going to be interesting in say 5 years.
--
Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs. But
we have big huge government we can't afford...
-- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude