Do you support Operation Odyssey Dawn?

[they don't love you like i love you]

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[King]

If they are anything like Ampe... oh, um, yeah.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     As much as I hate Qadaffi, I cannot in good conscience support any sort of offensive military operation.

[Napoleon]

     As much as I hate Qadaffi, I cannot in good conscience support any sort of offensive military operation.

Right on, especially given our recent actions over the last decade or so that have completely undermined America's legitimacy in determining when intervention is or isn't an option. We should really give other nations a chance to handle their own business for a while and perhaps concentrate more on the dire situation at home.

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     As much as I hate Qadaffi, I cannot in good conscience support any sort of offensive military operation.

Right on, especially given our recent actions over the last decade or so that have completely undermined America's legitimacy in determining when intervention is or isn't an option. We should really give other nations a chance to handle their own business for a while and perhaps concentrate more on the dire situation at home.

Obama would rather not actually do something that could improve his 60% disapproval rating on economic issues.

[courts]

No, I don't support nobel peace prize winner Obama bombing another country.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Absolutely.

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, of course.

[patrick1]

Yes.

[Horus]

     As much as I hate Qadaffi, I cannot in good conscience support any sort of offensive military operation.

Right on, especially given our recent actions over the last decade or so that have completely undermined America's legitimacy in determining when intervention is or isn't an option. We should really give other nations a chance to handle their own business for a while and perhaps concentrate more on the dire situation at home.

Couldn't agree more here.

New problems are piling up here as quickly as some old problems may be going away. If the British and French forces weren't enough I'd say we should, but without us they would've done the exact same thing.

[Lunar]

I'm still not sure I understand who the rebels are, exactly.  But it seems hard to disagree with Obama's decision here.

[dead0man]

yes (I)

[Franzl]

Yes, of course.

[phk]

Arab League should be forced to commit troops, otherwise Yes.

[Хahar 🤔]

I have to support this if I can in good faith support any American action ever.

[exopolitician]

Yes (Common Sense). I would support it if the President was a Republican.

[Brittain33]

I'm still not sure I understand who the rebels are, exactly.  But it seems hard to disagree with Obama's decision here.

That's how I feel about it. I can't think it's going to end well, but I know not intervening certainly wasn't, and at least we have lots of other countries by our side and have no illusions about a cheap war with flowers like we had going into Iraq.

[John Dibble]

Yes.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I honestly don't think so......I guess I'm more neutral than anything.   

[opebo]

I oppose it and support Gaddafi.

[Bull Moose Base]

I support Gaddafi but also this operation.

[Oakvale]

My view on this is pretty simple, actually. Gaddafi is massacring civillians, and someone should probably stop him from doing that.

I honestly don't know why someone would oppose the current operations. I mean, I'd get opposing ground troops - there's plenty of reasons to believe that that might be a mistake - but it's not like enforcing a no-fly zone is entangling the United States in another Vietnam or whatever the Left and isolationist Right seem to fear.

It should be obvious that the most powerful nations have a moral responsibility to intervene in a case like this, IMO (not that I, uh, really needed to add that, but hey).

[King]

My view on this is pretty simple, actually. Gaddafi is massacring civillians, and someone should probably stop him from doing that.

I honestly don't know why someone would oppose the current operations. I mean, I'd get opposing ground troops - there's plenty of reasons to believe that that might be a mistake - but it's not like enforcing a no-fly zone is entangling the United States in another Vietnam or whatever the Left and isolationist Right seem to fear.

It should be obvious that the most powerful nations have a moral responsibility to intervene in a case like this, IMO (not that I, uh, really needed to add that, but hey).

+1

This mission is genocide prevention not a war.  It's something we should have done in Darfur and have successfully done in the past. 

[opebo]

I honestly don't know why someone would oppose the current operations. I mean, I'd get opposing ground troops - there's plenty of reasons to believe that that might be a mistake - but it's not like enforcing a no-fly zone is entangling the United States in another Vietnam or whatever the Left and isolationist Right seem to fear.

It should be obvious that the most powerful nations have a moral responsibility to intervene in a case like this, IMO (not that I, uh, really needed to add that, but hey).

How does your 'moral responsibility' on the part of 'the most powerful nations' differ from the 'white man's burden', Oakville?  In fact to judge restoration of order against an armed rebellion as 'massacring civilians' is certainly to impose ones values upon another culture.  

Please remember, Oakville, that this is always the excuse for imperialism throughout history and the world over - that the native rulers are engaging in 'human rights violations' (the new politically correct buzzword for unchristian savagery).

[Jake]

If all we're going to do is enforce a No-Fly Zone to prevent him from killing more civilians/revolutionaries, I support it. I think it's far more likely that this ends in us assisting in a regime change and helping install a government and economic regime favorable to Western interests that may or may not be what the Libyan people would like to create for themselves.

In other words, I think the international community has the responsibility to protect human rights, but has no right to dictate the political and economic rules a people adopts for itself. The United States and its allies have a very poor record in following the latter.