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So let me get this straight: Tom Send a noteboard - 22/03/2011 06:48:53 PM
You're saying, without evidence, that some people on Twitter are opposed to the action. I never would have guessed. You provide no evidence why these semi-anonymous voices of dissent, who are in the minority as you admit, should have figured into the coalition's decision to start bombing to stop the Qaddhafi forces at the gates of Benghazi. Then you go on to say that these voices diminished when Qatar announced it was joining the coalition. So in other words, these irrelevant anonymous people didn't need Qatar to have joined the coalition BEFORE we started bombing, just to know that Qatar DID actually join. I once again see no reason why we should have waited.

Please go back to your original statement and explain to me how anything you've said since has supported that original statement. How would we have gained by waiting to start the campaign until Qatar was ready (which it still isn't, by the way)? How much would we have lost in dead civilians in Libya?

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya... Wibble - 20/03/2011 04:38:25 PM 1431 Views
Quite. Rebekah - 20/03/2011 04:41:39 PM 621 Views
The Arab league guy has gone out saying he was misquoted. Camilla - 20/03/2011 05:26:21 PM 674 Views
... completely surprising absolutely no one. *NM* Macharius - 20/03/2011 05:28:20 PM 244 Views
China and Russian abstained instead of voting No, which is odd. Rebekah - 20/03/2011 05:32:02 PM 606 Views
Workplace politics writ large. With more blood. Gads. My hermit instinct is rearing it's head. *NM* Tashmere - 20/03/2011 08:35:35 PM 281 Views
I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights.. random thoughts - 20/03/2011 10:15:59 PM 574 Views
Re: I think we should just ignore anything Russia and China says about human rights.. ironclad - 20/03/2011 11:12:11 PM 670 Views
exactly random thoughts - 21/03/2011 12:13:28 AM 566 Views
Misquoted to the extent of ordering an emergency meeting of the Arab League uh? Wibble - 20/03/2011 05:41:45 PM 637 Views
Re: So within 24 hours of the 1st UN mandated action in Libya... Macharius - 20/03/2011 05:31:48 PM 762 Views
Apparently Qatar is about to join the fray... it is rather crucial that the Arab world backs this. Legolas - 20/03/2011 05:50:14 PM 668 Views
And snoopcester - 20/03/2011 05:52:59 PM 642 Views
There is a lot of politics going on in the Arab League, from what I've read snoopcester - 20/03/2011 05:52:31 PM 885 Views
That is a big miscalculation. Rebekah - 20/03/2011 06:10:34 PM 732 Views
Not really Wibble - 20/03/2011 06:23:52 PM 770 Views
Agreed. Waiting wasn't an option. *NM* Legolas - 20/03/2011 06:46:39 PM 232 Views
I dunno. Rebekah - 20/03/2011 06:59:18 PM 748 Views
But the people who are going to think that way are going to do it no matter what random thoughts - 20/03/2011 10:13:36 PM 625 Views
The impression I got Ryan - 21/03/2011 04:14:57 PM 718 Views
to much diplomacy and not enough action random thoughts - 21/03/2011 04:56:45 PM 645 Views
It is us vs. them. Tom - 20/03/2011 10:30:50 PM 807 Views
Seriously. I can't believe Snoop and Rebekah's comments. It's like we had weeks to act. Tom - 20/03/2011 10:27:40 PM 733 Views
We have had weeks to act snoopcester - 20/03/2011 11:15:15 PM 738 Views
The French hit those vehicles in that military convoy 10 miles from Benghazi center. Tom - 21/03/2011 03:01:06 AM 697 Views
Because when you get involved in what is, unfortunately, an internal matter, Rebekah - 20/03/2011 11:18:16 PM 636 Views
Qatar is not part of Libya so it would still be outsiders interfering in an internal matter random thoughts - 21/03/2011 12:25:30 AM 640 Views
I have to ask: nossy - 21/03/2011 03:13:31 AM 809 Views
I don't think the people in Libya give at rat's ass about what the king of Qatar wants random thoughts - 21/03/2011 05:12:26 AM 771 Views
Imo, it's not about "gratitude." nossy - 21/03/2011 04:05:41 PM 678 Views
I actaully like NPR and listen to them on a regular basis random thoughts - 21/03/2011 04:44:42 PM 688 Views
Well, that has all shit to do with Qatari participation. Tom - 21/03/2011 03:02:19 AM 626 Views
Not so. Rebekah - 21/03/2011 08:54:31 AM 733 Views
Bullshit. Tom - 21/03/2011 01:37:32 PM 869 Views
Well. Rebekah - 21/03/2011 06:58:19 PM 655 Views
That's odd. I'm not seeing any of this criticism. Tom - 21/03/2011 10:55:27 PM 646 Views
There's been plenty on Twitter. Rebekah - 22/03/2011 08:29:48 AM 814 Views
So let me get this straight: Tom - 22/03/2011 06:48:53 PM 724 Views
It's not about "legitimacy" so much as it is about, to use the ugly word, propaganda. Legolas - 21/03/2011 10:33:12 PM 585 Views
The only support I've seen Qaddhafi get is from the rogues gallery of world pariahs. Tom - 21/03/2011 11:01:54 PM 694 Views
Indeed. And they should make sure it stays that way. Legolas - 21/03/2011 11:05:42 PM 718 Views
The PR has very little to do with Qatar joining or not. Tom - 22/03/2011 01:34:33 AM 740 Views
Is the Qatar involvement as important as the Kuwaiti involvement in the Iraq War? random thoughts - 22/03/2011 06:57:27 PM 1060 Views
Kuwait was involved in the Iraq War? *NM* Legolas - 22/03/2011 08:35:21 PM 231 Views
They were part of the famous Coalition of the Willing *NM* random thoughts - 22/03/2011 08:47:55 PM 239 Views
We got our authorization. Tom - 20/03/2011 10:25:10 PM 795 Views
I don't see a situation where this does not turn into a land war. Stephen - 20/03/2011 10:51:41 PM 702 Views
it is already is a land war if you ask the people on the ground doing the fighting for weeks random thoughts - 21/03/2011 12:34:10 AM 695 Views
Yeah, that's what I meant. Stephen - 21/03/2011 12:48:57 AM 621 Views
I doubt it would take US ground troops. Tom - 21/03/2011 03:16:24 AM 599 Views
Fuck that Aisha - 21/03/2011 12:47:54 AM 658 Views
you are always have been a fence sitter random thoughts - 21/03/2011 01:09:59 AM 624 Views
Fuck Gadhafi. Dragonsoul - 21/03/2011 05:21:29 AM 565 Views
how full of yourself are you? Aisha - 21/03/2011 12:37:47 PM 712 Views
They're not my people. Dragonsoul - 21/03/2011 02:22:46 PM 692 Views
Wha? nossy - 21/03/2011 03:55:51 PM 734 Views
Nope. Dragonsoul - 21/03/2011 04:21:21 PM 725 Views
Ok. nossy - 21/03/2011 04:30:44 PM 656 Views
I challenge you to point out where I'd advocated killing anyone but him and the military... Dragonsoul - 21/03/2011 04:45:05 PM 593 Views
The part where I said I misread should sufficiently cover that. nossy - 21/03/2011 04:49:18 PM 715 Views
Do something, get whined at. Do nothing and you get Rwanda. Druid - 21/03/2011 11:19:38 AM 815 Views
I completely agree. *NM* Tom - 21/03/2011 11:04:34 PM 179 Views
I would reply... Wibble - 21/03/2011 11:22:14 PM 550 Views
It is only natural that the girl preferred me to you, but....... Druid - 21/03/2011 11:36:33 PM 694 Views
snoopcester - 21/03/2011 11:38:49 PM 504 Views
Don't me!! Druid - 21/03/2011 11:50:07 PM 633 Views
And you old enough to be her father, you should be ashamed... Wibble - 22/03/2011 12:17:55 AM 439 Views
She said she prefers experience to enthusiasm....... Druid - 22/03/2011 12:24:05 AM 551 Views
Funny. She told me it was all down to the size of your.....wallet. *NM* Wibble - 22/03/2011 12:33:33 AM 224 Views
You know what they say....big wallet....big everything *NM* Druid - 22/03/2011 12:38:56 AM 261 Views
"You old enough to be her father" is usually followed with "I'm impressed and envious" Tom - 22/03/2011 06:50:27 PM 597 Views
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