For those who oppose military intervention...

[thewiseguy]

Some of you perhaps have no idea what Afghanistan was like under Taliban before the invasion. Where women were getting executed in soccer stadiums or seasonal wars and many refugees as a result. Are things perfect in Afghanistan? No definitely not. But they are a lot better than what they used to be. At least now every summer you do not have thousands upon thousands of Hazaras getting butchered. Sure there are civilian deaths taking place and that is very unfortunate but please do put things in perspective.

I really wish we had intervened in Iraq a lot earlier when Saddam was using chemicals on Kurds or butchering the shiites and not for some bogus WMD reason.

As for Libya I see the term rebel used a lot. The country is consisted of many tribes many of which have turned against Ghaddafi. He is using guns, tanks, jets, artillery, ships, mercenaries,... against his own people and killing them in droves. I read somewhere that the number of refugees leaving Libya have actually came down since the start of strikes. Are you suggesting the International community should stand idle and let this butchery take place? What suggestion do you have for intervening without having to actually go to war? Or maybe it is not out business anyway. Not ours and nor the international community's.

Why should I care if the Libyan government is killing their people in great numbers, as long as those gas prices do not go up. :sarcasm: