The people who do not want the US or the world to become involved in Libya burn me up. A typical comment: The issue is that it is a Libyan problem. Another: I agree... The United States should no longer involve itself in these internal fights in the middle east or anywhere else. We are not the World Police Force, World Court of Justice or World Welfare Provider.
This situation is EXACTLY like slave labour making cotton. Britain didn't have slaves a century and a half ago but she bought cotton from the USA which did. When a civil war broke out she and other European powers dithered and ended up supporting the union against their own immediate self interest. THANK GOD. Can we do less?
We have a responsibility to support freedom loving people all over the world. Both a UN resolution and the Arab League have asked the entire world to do so. We are a member of the UN and have international as well as moral obligations. We are the leader of the free world and the leading democratic power on earth and we have an obligation not to follow only our own narrow interests.
I want there to be a peaceful and just world order enforced by every means humanity can bring to bear. Right now that is the UN as led by the USA, France, Britain and the rest of the EU as the closest regional powers with the ability to project force.
Oil makes the world order run and as part of that order you have an OBLIGATION to oversee EXACTLY how it is produced and who profits from it's sale. To deny that is to try to absolve yourselves of the crimes of the producers while profiting from the abuse.
Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of the blood of Jesus while allowing the Pharassies to kill him and profit thereby, you would have the world stand idly by as hope and change are crushed underfoot while you continue your own pleasant existence.
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Please stay on topic and act maturely.