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I think Bahrain is getting ugly enough for the US to start pulling strings publicly with little or no blowback. I don't know what our ties to them are, and thus what we could/would do, but I hope the administration does something to stop this from turning into a total bloodbath.
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I would really approve of my tax dollars being used to enforce a no fly zone over Libya right now. We could have it fully in place by this time tomorrow.
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Feb 21, 2011 19:36
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I'm just ranting here, but we spend billions on the latest and greatest military toys, and now we have a veritable carte blanche of international opinion to use them to save lives, and our president is standing around holding his dick. We could have air superiority over Libya within hours, it may do fuckall for stuff that's happening on the ground, but they wouldn't be able to drop bombs on their own people anymore. EDIT: Darth123123 posted:Really?! You think the world (including China, Russia, and other ME nations) would view our intervention positively? Irrespective of how quickly we left. Not a chance. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_peace.html The Orgasm Sanction fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Feb 21, 2011 |
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Feb 21, 2011 19:51
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Owlkill posted:Too loving right Qatari prime minister. Bout time the EU and NATO (or the Arab League or anyone else for that matter) stepped up to the plate and actually intervened in a genocide for once rather than sitting back tutting and then saying 'never again' once it's all over. I'm not calling for boots on the ground or anything like that but gently caress, you've got Italy, France and Spain (off the top of my head) all within striking distance, all with modern air forces. Surely a no-fly zone wouldn't be too controversial an idea. The United States 6th Fleet is based in Italy, there is at least one aircraft carrier within range to run air cover over Tripoli and Banghazi which are on the coast. The Orgasm Sanction fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Feb 21, 2011 |
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Feb 21, 2011 21:52
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Slantedfloors posted:Any foreign intervention is a bad idea, but American intervention would be the absolute worst thing ever by a large margin. I don't think there would be much fallout from preventing Libyan military aircraft from taking off, since they are bombing their own people.
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Feb 21, 2011 22:01
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No one is saying we should co-opt their revolution, and I don't see how stopping the Libyan air force from dropping bombs on civilians would do that.
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Feb 21, 2011 22:12
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Ace Oliveira posted:Well, we don't need to pull a full all out war against the Libyan military to help the protesters. We could do it diplomatically, or economically. We could help them. We don't need to invade the country to do it. You are right and wrong at the same time. We wouldn't have to have a full war/invasion to help them. But diplomacy, and economics are not options. Gaddafi knows that he is on the way out, and he is dead set on leaving a pile of bodies as revenge.
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Feb 21, 2011 22:20
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roundmidnight posted:stuff So even just a no fly zone, no troops ever set foot in Libya, only stopping Gaddafi from using the air force against the protesters, will destroy the legitimacy of the revolution?
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Feb 21, 2011 22:42
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Man, this guy would have done well in the US senate, he'd be a champion at the filibuster.
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Feb 22, 2011 17:45
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IM_DA_DECIDER posted:There seems to be a second translator in the background. What language is being spoken here? The translator hears the audio a second before we see it so he can keep up. Edit: gently caress me
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Feb 22, 2011 17:57
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'Nother crony making a lot of bad noise.
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Feb 22, 2011 23:24
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Their own base may well shoot them down.
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Feb 23, 2011 01:18
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Has there been any major group in the Arab world arguing against a no fly zone? I don't see why we need to wait for a UN mandate when everyone in the region is calling for someone to step up and stem the bloodshed.
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Mar 8, 2011 19:01
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Darth123123 posted:He said AND AA batteries. Really why would you give AA to a rebel force that just accidently shot down one of their own, and then send in your countries planes to fly over the same territory. Think energizer instead of bofors. ^^^^gahhh
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Mar 20, 2011 03:15
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The story on Al Jazeera says that the jets were downed by heavy machine gun fire, it makes me think that the pilots were being dumb for the rebels to manage two in a row like that. Any video of this up?
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Feb 14, 2013 20:03
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I'm wondering if the powers that be are surprised that the shipments were noticed and sourced as quickly as they were. With previous conflicts it seems like something that would have gone relatively unpublicized save for a footnote in some history book.
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Feb 28, 2013 23:35
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The symptoms in this video look closer to nerve agent exposure than the previous videos. So, at the very least, their acting is getting better!
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May 23, 2013 23:21
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But what if the guy ACTUALLY bribed the poor into voting for him, as it seems to be the case here?
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Jun 2, 2013 19:21
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In before we lose a B2 hilariously.
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Aug 24, 2013 05:10
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Syria is pretty much in an unrecoverable tailspin, and so the only thing strikes will serve to do is to punish the regime for using chemical weapons on a civilian population, but I'm still in favor of it because if there is anything that should get some scumfuck despot bombed by the rest of the world, it's gassing a bunch of innocent men, women, and children.
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Aug 27, 2013 00:22
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With the type of assets we're probably going to target, there's really precious fuckall that Assad can do to save them from us.
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Aug 28, 2013 01:58
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Does anyone have a good article that goes over the attack itself? Things like, timing, combination of CW and conventional weapons, etc?
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Aug 29, 2013 01:36
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The Entire Universe posted:If your question is "does anyone have *" then the answer is probably Brown Moses. I'm specifically looking for anything on the concurrent conventional attack, even BM is kinda lacking in that.
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Aug 29, 2013 01:56
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The X-man cometh posted:Any hope one of them will be Caro? Nope.
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Jan 6, 2014 05:03
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Any chance of a direct translation?
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Jun 15, 2014 20:38
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Why aren't we bombing the gently caress out of these guys if they are advancing over open ground? These are easy pickings.
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Oct 2, 2014 21:29
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:I think we missed that chance now that they are in the city. I hear that they've called up the A10s - is there a chance that without helicopters and A10s there just aren't good options against individuals on the ground? Hopefully it is more that than something more sinister. Then we had plenty of time beforehand and simply didn't?
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Oct 2, 2014 21:38
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Any news from Kobane?
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Oct 3, 2014 18:02
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Video of a C-130 doing an airdrop for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqPBkrkwcA
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Torpor posted:http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.841026&lon=38.452320&z=13&m=b What reports by whom?
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What... the... gently caress... http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-introduce-poison-gas I don't even... Jesus...
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