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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Because Gaddafi was a bad man, it was OK for the West to help overthrow him? [View all]BainsBane
(54,074 posts)9. Then I suggest you pick up a book
on foreign policy or diplomatic history. Any will do. The way you have posed the question is itself a fallacy. The US has never operated based on what was "right." Any arguments about right and wrong are spun for public consumption. Foreign policy by any nation is about how it assesses it's own interests, which can be economic as well as geopolitical. The US has generally acted in ways it believed served its interests but often backfired: Vietnam, Iraq, most of its interventions in Latin America, Iran in 1954, on and on.
Did you never take a course in foreign policy or diplomatic history in college?
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Poll: Because Gaddafi was a bad man, it was OK for the West to help overthrow him? [View all]
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
OP
Can you point to examples of how one was obviously worse than the other?
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#17
Egypt had the military to fill the vacuum, which certainly was not the most ideal
Exilednight
May 2015
#35
No, what he actually meant is exactly what he said. He DID live under a dictatorship. Your contempt
okaawhatever
May 2015
#88
Libya now open for ISIS, Africa destabilized and flooded with guns, new immigration crisis...
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#14
Sadly Republicans clouded the real issues of US intervention in Libya by extreme focus on Benghazi
Cheese Sandwich
May 2015
#56
Here's a synonym for Clusterfuck or FUBAR ... the Hydra ... every time you cut off one of the
libdem4life
May 2015
#28
We should only step in if we have a good shot at improving the situation,
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#51
I think that you and I have a different understanding of the English language.
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#61
Is there any situation where "progressives" would consent to killing a dictator?
wyldwolf
May 2015
#52
"Just" means for true defensive or humanitarian causes, i.e., not to grab land, resources or cash
MannyGoldstein
May 2015
#73
How does anyone think how we would feel if some other country decided to invade and overthrow
-none
May 2015
#43
No one. No one at all.`But we keep poking other countries with sticks until they do something in
-none
May 2015
#55
It's like being forced to go to a lousy movie E-V-E-R-Y day. same ol' plot, same characters.
BlueJazz
May 2015
#75
The UN authorized intervention in Libya at the behest of France and the UK primarily
pampango
May 2015
#89