No matter what argument that is put forward to justify the bombing of Libya, the REALITY is that it will be ordinary Libyan people that will die, young, old and innocent. Our wonderful cruise missiles do not just hit bad guys and they go off with a helluva big bang, we can be sure that and one certain beneficiary will be the arms industry. Of course, to the politicians sitting ever so safe in their corridors of power, these lives are a price worth paying!! The world is peppered with dictators that repress “their” people with a vicious violence, some we put there and some we help stay there and most of them are armed to the teeth by the same benevolent West, and of course we do lots of profitable business with them. So now the West has placed its bets and we have Libyans cheering and Libyans dyeing. The result will be a divide country potholed by cruise missiles and pockmark with graves of innocent Libyans. I object very strongly to being labelled as a Gaddafi supporter because I oppose the bombing. Is brute force the only answer that the so called moralistic and civilised West has to these problems? If so can we really call ourselves “civilised”? It is surely naive to think that the West is pouring all this money and blasting off all these very expensive missiles out of compassion for the Libyan people. We have proved in the past the the West doesn’t give a shit about the people of the Middle East nor North Africa, and many other places. The ordinary people of the West might care, but the Western state apparatus? Don’t make me laugh, it’s not funny.
XX Is brute force the only answer that the so called moralistic and civilised West has to these problems? If so can we really call ourselves “civilised”? XX
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I wasn't aware that I had put forward any "theory". I was merely suggesting that brute force was not the only method available to the Western powers. And do we march in guns blazing to every country where peaceful protest is being violently repressed. Have a wee look round the world and pick where next, there are plenty to choose from. We could start with Bahrain, or perhaps Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or lets go a little further afield, how about China. They've been doing it for years, yea, lets get China next.
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