You don't know more than me. You think you do because you believe US propaganda, and only US propaganda. You take it at face value and get sanctimonious about people who actually do know more than you.
I don’t think it was a mistake. I think the UN should have occupied Libya after Gaddafi fell.
Cause that would go so well. It went well for Korea, Vietnam, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan. I mean hell, name one American occupation that has gone well. The only ones I can think of are Japan and Germany. Both of which notably never really punished the financial elites in those countries for their crimes. But that is a distraction. Can you name me an American Occupation that didn't result in horrific war crimes, or resulted in a stable government in the last 80 years?
This is why some of the others are calling you a monster.
Also, and I know pre-emptively you'll ignore this and call it a conspiracy theory, but to be pedantic, Sarkozy didn't need more money, he already had it. It was to destroy the documentation for the money that he had already received. It was to destroy the evidence.
I'd also love to see your blood thirst be applied evenly, because it isn't. Frankly, the worst country in the world by basically every metric, we're perfectly fine with. Specifically Saudi Arabia.
Why do you think France, under the leadership of Sarkozy, largely led the initial effort against Libya?
This isn't, as you say, a US led mistake. Also, the treatment of the franco-sphere areas of Africa are extremely horrible. France is not a country you want to be a colony of.
You don't have to justify the murderous actions of another countries empire.
That wasn't a complaint. Or, I guess it was? You're non-monogamous, you like Peter Watts. In every post, except the political, we have a lot in common. But, fuck, the politics are not just a small difference. It's like when someone you dislike likes all the things you do. :/
Don't worry, I just read your insane foreign policy opinions in other threads. You're insane. You want to start WW3.
A top to bottom American Imperialist who justifies every foreign policy position America has ever taken, no matter how evil.
Even the ones that committed those foreign policy blunders have publicly admitted were wrong. Obama publicly admitted he regretted the US's role in the Libyan war.
If you knew things, you'd know that people of the left also think liberal (not lib) is an insult, coming from a completely different place. Look up the ‘Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.' origin if you actually want to learn something.
You'd also know that every Sunni fundamentalist group during that time period between 1990-2003 had to claim that. You'd also know that those Foreign Nationals were basically all Saudi Arabian, functioning as a first wave to try and claim the territory for Saudi Arabia, because a large chunk of Saudi Arabia was scheduled to be given back to Yemen from a 99 year lease. You'd also know that the Saudi Arabians had, in the early part of that time period just commited a pogrom against the Shia in Najran who were very excited about the prospect of rejoining a Shia majority country. And that the vast majority of the people of Yemen are Shia. You'd also know that the civil war came about specifically because the Saudis took over the government in Sanaa to, at least in part, keep the land and the people of Yemen were extremely unhappy about this.
Fuck man, the Houthi fought against the few groups of AQAP that did still exist harder than the US did.
I did click on that link. It's the same standard bullshit written by people who have never been to Yemen. I also looked at the citations used. That was written by people who have never been there, mostly to retroactively justify Americas fucked up foreign policy.
I'm done responding to someone that unquestioningly justifies the intentional bombing of a 16 year old and an 8 year old US citizens. Because it was legal (It wasn't.)
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