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Libya- The Cost

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  • Jennifer_Jane
    Jennifer_Jane Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    The US is a member of NATO and this is a NATO initiative, the US are there...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/19/libya-no-fly-zone-live-updates
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Just watched a report on the news.

    Gaddafi is sending rockets into civilian towns and villages, filled with ball bearings.

    The ball bearings are designed to cause maximum casualties as the rockets explode. It seems he's also trying to send the rockets directly to where children are known to reside.

    £250m?

    Nothing.
  • mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Well at least its not gone on providing a 4 bed detatched to a pregnant single 16 year old.:beer:

    Quite a few rapes and murders prevented with that 250 million.
    I wouldn't want it to go on that either i just think the government should stop wasting money and lives abroad.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite

    Do I think we would really be there without other motives? Hmmm. Not sure. But the lack of the US is a telling point.

    Either way, over-riding all that, I'm glad we ARE there. As I say, we've watched too much human tradegy take place in the past while standing by and doing nothing....when we could have prevented many many deaths and suffering.

    Fine but why not Zimbabwe for example:question:
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    Fine but why not Zimbabwe for example:question:

    Because for some bizarre reason, Mugabe has a lot of allies in that part of the world. Not the same for Gaddafi.
  • Jennifer_Jane
    Jennifer_Jane Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    edited 24 June 2011 pm30 5:49PM
    Exactly, the Arab League were enthusiastic in supporting the Libyan initiative; not so the sub-Saharan African leaders who feel a misplaced* support for Mugabe from the old Colonial days.

    *'Misplaced' because it is the whole of sub-Saharan Africa and it's inhabitants who suffer. I just don't understand why African leaders are so blind especially since it has led to the vile xenophobia in South Africa.

    Anyway, just because you can't help people in one part of the World, does that mean you shouldn't help people anywhere?

    Just don't understand why anyone with any sensitivity would be against the Libyan intervention.
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