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I'd have gone had it not been that toss pot Crow speaking.
I notice our apparently far right poster`s haven`t had a go! Mr Frost? Hoolahoop?
I'm +1.72 left and 3.17 libertarian
Bentley Bullet wrote:QuoteI'm +1.72 left and 3.17 libertarianYou and I share almost identical views Hoola.......Is that good or bad?!!
I'm half Librarian and half Alsatian.
Foreign Policy:...- 3.63.. Non-interventionalist. I am quite happy be a pacifist..And aparently I come out as a cultural liberal.. -5.24I believe people have the right to follow their own beliefs, both in their god , gender, sexuality and body.I don't believe in guns and I certainly don't believe ANY country has the right to trundle over another for gain.Perhaps I am too idealistic, because I want to live in a world that will never exist.
Sadly as I said, I know I am too idealistic, I also know that where there is great evil there is a duty to help.I am also however very much aware that the greedy leaders are very selective who they help... Lets face it, if there is oil in them there hills the U.S and the U.K are in like flynn..Unless I have missed it i haven't seen much in the way of Mugabe sorting going on.............If the only wealth in a country is the poor suffering people the silence is deafening.
As I say, there is nothing to gain from defeating Mugabe.. No oil fields to seize, no American interests being comprimised..No assets to be stripprd...(I mean held for the greater good)Nothing at all to gain but the safety and freedom of a people ground into the dirt by a vicious despot..But then, for our leaders, (not our armed forces), is there truly anything remotely humanitarian about modern war?
jucyberry wrote:QuoteAs I say, there is nothing to gain from defeating Mugabe.. No oil fields to seize, no American interests being comprimised..No assets to be stripprd...(I mean held for the greater good)Nothing at all to gain but the safety and freedom of a people ground into the dirt by a vicious despot..But then, for our leaders, (not our armed forces), is there truly anything remotely humanitarian about modern war?I think you're being a bit to simplistic on this if you'll forgive me Deb.The tragedy of Blair was that he started off with precisely the approach that you (and I) would like to see.There was no strategic or natural resource incentive in going into Sierra Leone, but Britain, under Blair, did it because we felt it was obscene to stand aside and watch 10s of thousands of people being chopped up with machetes by militia gangs. It was a response to the pathetic hand-sitting that the West had done in Rwanda when we stood by wringing our hands and watching as a million people were massacred, and perhaps half a million women gang-raped in 3 months of carnage.And then in Kosovo. There was no strategic gain to going in there. But Blair and Clinton were (I believe) genuinely disgusted by the fact that the EU (including our own wonderful Major Govt) had sat and watched a geonocide on their own doorstep in Bosnia in the early 90s, and done nothing to stop it. And Blair and Clinton made damn sure that it wasn't going to happen on their watch, by bombing Belgrade to until they reined in their militias in Kosovo.If Major had done that in 91, 100,000 deaths might have been averted in Bosnia.Sierra Leone and Kosovo were supposed to send a message that in the post-Cold War world, Clinton's USA and Blair's UK would smack you down hard if you tried those games again.And then the tragedy was that Blair got swept up along with a bunch of neo-con war criminals who thought principles were for fags and all that mattered was projecting power in pursuit of national interests. And after 9/11 and then Iraq, the whole concept of intervention to stop bestial thugs and their medieval atrocities has been put back by a half a century.So we sit back and watch Mugabe, we sit back and watch Darfur, and while the biggest war since 1945 was being played out in Congo, with maybe 5 million people killed in the last decade, we sat back and ignored it.It's enough to make you weep. And to hope that there is a special circle of Hell set aside for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld when they finally do the decent thing and fcuk off from this earth.
Left 3.19 Authoritarian 0.35Does that back up the fact that I am not right wing but don't wish Maggie a painful death?I hope so.
I dress to the left, and if anyone dresses to the right, there's some-ert wrong wi yers.