AL-QAEDA the bad guys ?

[FREDFOX]

I thought Al-Qaeda were the bad guys yet we bomb Gaddafi and the rebels give arms including surface to air missiles to Al-Qaeda.

Are we dropping bombs on the wrong enemy ?.

http://politifi.com/n...-weapons-1861931.html

[Davethedog]

We are paving the way to a fundamentalist state,

[FREDFOX]

Who are they going to fire those missiles at ?

[Old_Geezer]

They're going fox hunting.

[Davethedog]

This is Daves folly not as bad as Tony's folly but bad anyway, and who knows how much worse it will get.

[FREDFOX]

I agree koode when we have no money for hospitals etc we still find plenty to pay for the bombs.

Old_Geezer you sound just like Cameron.

[steg]

to me it's like, if you are walking down the road and you see some one getting the utter sh1t kicked out of them, do you ignore it cause it has nothing to do with you or do you try to save the person that is getting the kicking. the latter for me

[steg]

would he have Paedophile written on him or would i have to ask him 1st?

[Davethedog]

Steg if you intervened and the guy getting a kicking got up and then stabbed the attacker, what happend next.

Dave started this under the premis that he was saving civilians, however what happens if the rebel civilians get in a postion where the can kill Gaddaffi civillians, do we then bomb the civilians?

My question is there are alot of places we could intervene for exactly the same reasons, but we didn't so why choose Libya?

[steg]

"Steg if you intervened and the guy getting a kicking got up and then stabbed the attacker, what happend next. stabbed the attacker, what happend next."
if an attacker attacks someone and then the attacked attack the attacker, then that's tuff, cause the attacker shouldn't of attacked the attacked in the 1st place.
but you could of also said " Steg if you intervened and the guy getting a kicking got up and then thanked you for saving his life" which is actually more probable

[Zeuhl]

This was UN/Nato backed unlike The B Liar's little adventure.

Also, the Interim Council seem to be pro-democract, pro west - so far!

Admittedly, anything could happen - it's like a wild break-shot in a snooker game.

[Davethedog]

"if you are walking down the road and you see some one getting the utter sh1t kicked out of them"

You never saw who started it so how can you be sure the guy getting the kicking isn't the aggressor just because hes losing?

The rebels started this you know.

[steg]

"The rebels started this you know"

i know,...... how dare they protest against their dictatorship, they deserved to be shot and bombed for that.................. not

[steg]

"You never saw who started it so how can you be sure the guy getting the kicking isn't the aggressor just because hes losing? "
that would not come into it for me, enough is enough then intervention is called for

[Davethedog]

Steg - we are being propogadadised about the rebels is because we all hate Gaddaffi, which is fair enough because he is a c^&*, but just because he is wrong doesn't make what we are doing right.

So I am out walking with my wife, bloke pulls a knife tries to mug me, hits my wife, I respond mugger finds I am a better fighter and more aggresive, i get him on the floor and at this moment you stroll around the corner and attack me.

[anotheoldgit]

steg

Enough of all this "if I was walking out" etc.

Enough to say should we therefore be prepared to fight on the side of all rebels against their dictators, the world over?

Why be selective?

[steg]

your scenarios are getting worse and more ridiculous every time Dave.
you are making out now that i would attack any one that was having a fight....... no i wouldn't.
If i walked round the corner and i seen you/anyone absolutley kicking the sh1t out of someone i would intervene, not attack.