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coldharvest wrote:Has anyone actually seen any of the alledged fighting in Libya?
The Tourist wrote:coldharvest wrote:Has anyone actually seen any of the alledged fighting in Libya?
I'm not sure that the daily or the specific engagements are the important thing there
coldharvest wrote:You're not sure if they're actually fighting is important?
The Tourist wrote:coldharvest wrote:You're not sure if they're actually fighting is important?
No, I'm not. Having little brown or little yellow people die doesn't mean crap to Americans. My fellow students during the Vietnam War weren't really protesting for peace in that region, they were protesting the idea that they themselves would have to die for it. When the draft ended--and despite Pol Pot's killing--the campus was quiet here.
In times now, most of the folks here were angered over gas costing more than 4 dollars per gallon. You could have nuked the entire middle-east and as long as gas was two bucks no one would have cared. You have to remember that most Americans believe that anyone in a turban is "responsible" for 9/11 and should be killed anyway.
And frankly, I don't follow this issue, myself. Today I rode my Harley, and premium cost 3.93 per gallon in my area. I was more concerned with gas spiking again in price, not Libya falling, or some lame jihad or whether Quaddafi was alive or dead. I cannot care about every square inch of the world, and people are distressed within the sight of my home. I don't have to go looking for strife on the other side of the world.
coldharvest wrote:You're missing my point.
I believe that the fighting in Libya is mostly make-believe, that the West is being tricked and played for a sucker.
and also assumes that no one from the west is on the ground.
coldharvest wrote:You're missing my point. I believe that the fighting in Libya is mostly make-believe, that the West is being tricked and played for a sucker.
The Tourist wrote:My Harley runs on the oil of free countries, my Harley runs on the oil of self-destructive despots, my Harley runs on the oil of countries we take by force.
Former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, who recently returned from a self-sanctioned peace mission to Libya, said he went into hiding for about a month in Libya after witnessing horrifying events in Libya's bloody civil war -- a war that Fauntroy claims is backed by European forces.
Fauntroy's sudden disappearance prompted rumors and news reports that he had been killed.
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
Ultra Swain wrote:Ah another epic sentiment to print on truckers caps and XXL t-shirts and placed in the pantheon of deep thinkers, over the beef jerky and pina colada air fresheners at the AM/PM in Tempe, Arizona.
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