Dumbness and Libya

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Directed at people for: "So you supported this when Bush did it?"

Directed at people against: "So you wouldn't intervene in (Rwanda/Kosovo/WWII)?"

Reductio ad absurdum is meant to reduce another's argument to its most absurd implications. It isn't about making an absurd argument yourself. If you're going to ignore the manifold differences between Libya and other countries/conflicts, whatever your stance, at least do others the courtesy of assuming they have not ignored such differences in forming their own conclusions. if there's any intelligent discussion of Libya here, it will take into account the uniqueness of the conflict/country rather than collapsing everything into simplistic, patronizing, sloganeering tropes.

(Yes, I know this is the internet.)