Libya should be next

[phylodog]

Once the teams have an opportunity to regroup, I vote they get the privileged of permanently altering this guy's breathing patterns as well: US: Libya Troops Issued Viagra, Raping Victims

 

[mrjarrell]

Sorry, but it's none of our business. We've got enough problems of our own without adding more to them.

 

[NYFelon]

Once the teams have an opportunity to regroup, I vote they get the privileged of permanently altering this guy's breathing patterns as well: US: Libya Troops Issued Viagra, Raping Victims

Executive Order 11905 [1976, Ford] proscribes assassinating foreign heads of state.

 

[Expat]

Executive Order 11905 [1976, Ford] proscribes assassinating foreign heads of state.

Those don't mean anything. Obama will sign a secret executive order countermanding it.

 

[iwearcowboyboots]

Sorry, but it's none of our business. We've got enough problems of our own without adding more to them.

But what about the [strike]oil[/strike] children?

 

[thej27]

Executive Order 11905 [1976, Ford] proscribes assassinating foreign heads of state.

Change "foreign head of state" to "acceptable military target" and its not a problem. It worked when they tried to take out Saddam just before shock and awe began right?

 

[Bond 281]

Sorry, but it's none of our business. We've got enough problems of our own without adding more to them.

This

 

[loony1]

lolz....this is a family forum

 

[loony1]

Sorry, but it's none of our business. We've got enough problems of our own without adding more to them.

how old are you? Libya has been a big pain in the ars longer than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

"Pain in the arse" is not the criteria. If we assassinate anyone who's a "pain in the arse" we're going to get rid of a few forum members along with some foreign heads of state! I would opt for a different approach. The "Armed Programmer" Doctrine would be more like this: Instigate violence against America, and we can prove it (or you publicly claim it... considered proof), we take steps to eliminate you. Aside of that, do whatever you want, and we will leave you alone. No foreign aid, we don't attempt to "project our power" except in the above cases. We don't need to be the world's policeman. We use our own energy supplies and let oil guys dry up and blow away...

Not so much an isolationist strategy, but more of a "no meddling" strategy. Pursue trade all over the place. But No violence unless attacked. Then a very targeted response. Not an army camping there.

 

[Expat]

"Pain in the arse" is not the criteria. If we assassinate anyone who's a "pain in the arse" we're going to get rid of a few forum members along with some foreign heads of state! I would opt for a different approach. The "Armed Programmer" Doctrine would be more like this: Instigate violence against America, and we can prove it (or you publicly claim it... considered proof), we take steps to eliminate you. Aside of that, do whatever you want, and we will leave you alone. No foreign aid, we don't attempt to "project our power" except in the above cases. We don't need to be the world's policeman. We use our own energy supplies and let oil guys dry up and blow away...

Not so much an isolationist strategy, but more of a "no meddling" strategy. Pursue trade all over the place. But No violence unless attacked. Then a very targeted response. Not an army camping there.

So since Gaddafi was behind the Pan Am bombing that killed bunches of Americans, you are all for doing whatever we need to, to take him out?

 

[Brian S.]

Let's not forget that Qadafi came to power through revolution, with the promise of creating a republic.

On the practical side, all we would be doing is paving the way for a new and improved evil dictator. The people of Libya are not ready…philosophically…for a proper government.

On the morality side, it is wrong spend tax money (taken by force from us) to risk the lives of our soldiers whose job it is to defend our country, to fight and die for them. They are Europe's problem.

 

[chraland51]

I would just like to see us finishing something that we start. We have not done that since the Korean police action. We just go in to a country, create a mess and then leave it in a different kind of mess. We have to best military in the world. We have the capabilities to win anything that we get into. We have the weakest, most lily-livered bunch of politicians, including pukes for president that let the politicians run the war instead of the great minds that we once had in the military and hopefully still do. If we pull out of Afghanistan, Pakistan may fall and provide a bunch of jihadists with a nuclear arsenal. We sit by, as does overyone else and let Iran and North Korea develop nuclear weapons and their necessary delivery systems. We get our noses rubbed in poop by a Libyan idiot and assist those who were only a while ago trying to kill us in another country. With all of the secrecy surrounding the event, who knows if we really killed bin Laden or not last weekend? That mass murderer did not deserve the respect he go when he was buries. Did our special forces get any respect when their bodies were dragged through the street of Mogadishu in Somolia? Why are we always bending over backwards so as not to offend the moslems who are trying to kill us? If they are that low on the evolutionary ladder so as to think that they can riot, loot, burn and murder at every perceived offence to their over-sensitive sensibilities, we should prepare to do what is necessary to wipe them out. We need the help of those gutless countries in Europe who have tried and failed multi-culturalism. Radical moslems are not just going to disappear without a lot of help. Just my two cents.

 

[mrjarrell]

how old are you? Libya has been a big pain in the ars longer than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Old enough to know that they haven't done anything to us in a couple of decades. What's happening over there is of no concern to us. They don't even sell their oil to us, it goes to European markets. Altho, if you really want to fight, nothing's stopping you from going over there and picking up an AK and getting down to it. Lots of other countries have are pains in the butt, too. Doesn't mean we have any business going over there to assassinate their leaders or start a war with them.

 

[ATOMonkey]

We used to fight for freedom, now we fight for security. If we keep it up, we'll have neither.