10. I don't agree with our latest adventure in Libya.
But my outrage is less at that than at the fact that we are willing to blink at human rights abuses for decades. Qaddafi didn't just start being a bad guy last month. We (specifically UN member nations) have had decades to try to find a nonmilitary avenue to confront him, but it wasn't until the flow of oil dried up that we found an urgent reason to intervene. If we had the will, I think we could find a way.
Libya is only a symptom of the world's inability (unwillingness?) to confront tyranny before it becomes crisis.
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