Great success.... So when do we quit dumping money into it? (nt)

[AlabamaLibrul]

[Skittles]

1. LOLOL

:rofl:

[AlabamaLibrul]

2. I like permanent war too. (nt)

[scheming daemons]

3. We hardly spent anything at all on Libya...

.. some drone attacks and some bombing runs.

That's about it.


This was done very cheaply.


Opposite of Afghanistan and Iraq.

[AlabamaLibrul]

5. Do you have any figures on exactly how much we've spent?

I haven't seen any. I know it didn't go through as an official "war", with official budgets and all that, so I really don't know.

[Cerridwen]

16. You "really don't know" but thought you'd criticize it anyway? Ok. n/t

[AlabamaLibrul]

19. Do you have any numbers? No? Because it's a secret war with no official budget? Ok. n/t

[Cerridwen]

20. YOU are the one claiming "money pit." Put up. n/t

[AlabamaLibrul]

21. LOL....

I can't. There's no official budget.

Do you think we got those bombs, planes, pilots etc for free?

Only in the greatest of logic-bending would someone try to disprove a prima facie case of money being spent in this "effort".

[Cerridwen]

22. You have no numbers; you have no proof of amount of monies spent,

yet you feel, with all that ignorance of monies and monies spent, that you have enough information to criticize the amount of money spent for which you have no numbers?

[AlabamaLibrul]

23. You're too funny...

Prima facie, my friend.

Nothing is free in love and war.

[Amonester]

18. FYI, the NTC (National Transition Council) said Lybia will honor all

IOU's from NATO countries that 'helped' making the rebellion sucessful.

A suivre...

[AngkorWot]

4. Yeah, what did we get out of this deal?

The lives of a few hundred thousand Libyan civilians now living free?

But what about me?

[AlabamaLibrul]

6. "We will be greeted as liberators" is a weak argument for going into every country that

we don't want to prop up any more harms its citizens.

[AngkorWot]

8. It happens like clockwork.

Every time Obama was right on an issue, and it's proven in front of the eyes of the entire world, the people who were wrong from the very beginning, instead of admitting it and apologizing or at the very least slinking away in humiliation, try to cram the foot a little further into their mouths.

[AlabamaLibrul]

9. Anything factually wrong with my statement?

We sure seem to enjoy going in and bombing places, when their dictators don't suit us anymore.

[AngkorWot]

12. You mean despite it being a statement of opinion?

And having nothing to do with what I just said?

[AlabamaLibrul]

13. The fact implied in the statement is that when dictators do not suit the US agenda anymore,

we go in and get rid of them, at which time they are most likely replaced by a new name and a new face with the same old problems.

[AngkorWot]

15. Can you identify Libya on an unmarked map?

The reason Gadhafi didn't suit the "U.S. agenda" anymore was because of the massive armored column he was sending into Benghazi in order to massacre thousands of civilians.

It's not like Gadhafi wasn't letting the oil flow.

[AlabamaLibrul]

17. Even if I couldn't (I can) that's a pretty ridiculous argument against having an opinion

on the current actions, and the facts surrounding our nation's history with propping up and subsequently tearing down dictatorships when they do and do not suit us.

[marmar]

7. Do you really believe that's what's going to happen?

Just like we "liberated" Iraq and Afghanistan from repressive regimes, right? I mean, it's not like a new dictator is going to come in and fill the void.

[AngkorWot]

11. I think, Marmar, this was a popular revolt by the Libyan people.

All Obama and NATO did was destroy Gadhafi's jets and tank columns to give the rebels a fighting chance.

I mean, it's not like the Gadhafi apologists actually cared about the guy per se, or before NATO got involved. It's just that he was the enemy of their enemy, and therefore their friend.

[Safetykitten]

10. Daisy......daisy......

[Cerridwen]

14. Give me your answer...do.

I'm half craaaaazy...