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[la_vie_noire]

International forces bombard targets in Libya.

For God's sake. This is a mess.

Yes, Gaddafi is a killer. But this has no excuse. Weren't Iraq and Afghanistan enough?

Comments

[the_future_modernes]

i am hoping desperately that they will be fucking careful.

[la_vie_noire]

Yeah, but I read there was a death toll already, and that is just wrong.

[bell]

*heart sinks*

[la_vie_noire]

Yeah, I don't know how well this will go for these people. But doesn't look really good.

[parlance]

As a friend of mine put it, if only Obama's Nobel Prize could taken back.

[la_vie_noire]

Tell me about it.

[buria_q]

what happened to the ceasefire? i'm so confused. what a cynical power play, with regular citizens caught in the middle.

[la_vie_noire]

I may be wrong, but I think this was planned and "booked" before the ceasefire was declared.

[q99]

On Qaddafi's part, it definitely was. The deal with the ceasefire was while Qaddafi was declaring it, he was also in the middle of a large attack on civilians. The reason the NFZ got pushed through when it did was because it was sort of a, "Do this *right now* or thousands of people die, not maybe, and within the next day or two," thing.

In this case I do think countries stepping in was definitely the lesser evil. Qaddafi is the type who'll engage in mass slaughter of civilians, and without the help of air power that is what was going to happen to the rebels. The rebels were specifically asking for it, the entire Arab League supported it, etc..

[lynx]

THIS, so much.

And to think I used to hope Obama would be better than Bush.

[la_vie_noire]

Well, he technically is. Anyone is better than Bush. That doesn't make him any good though.

[lynx]

Yeah, I meant it in the sense of "WAY better than Bush OMFG" not "Well at least he's not invading-- OWAIT".

He's here and the anti-imperialism riots are being quite the delight.