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2011-03-21 Africa North

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Posted by tipper 2011-03-21 09:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It would be amusing if Obama, in choosing to intervene from 50,000 feet, removes Gaddafi only to see Islamists take over. I have always been against intervention because I saw Gaddafi as the lesser of two evils. Intervention without ground troops runs the risk of enabling a Taliban state with its own oil reserves. Some might argue that we already have that in Saudi Arabia. Not true. We're not concerned about the troglodyte tendencies of the population so long as their leaders don't allow anti-American terrorist groups to train on their soil for things like 9/11. We invaded Afghanistan not because they were (and are) 7th century troglodytes, but because they helped bin Laden kill 3000 Americans.

It's not all bad. The Sudan is an Islamist oil-producing state and it's not sponsoring* terrorists to strike at US targets. The problem is that the Sudan wasn't a leading source of al Qaeda-ists striking at US troops in Iraq. Libya was. Whatever they put in Libya's water, it seems to be - at the present time - a real font of Muslim revanchists of the kind who are willing to kill large numbers of people to make their point.

* One could argue, of course, that Sudan was relatively quiescent on the jihadi front internationally because it was fending off threats of internal secession with the animist, Christian and racially-black south.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-03-21 14:26|| 2011-03-21 14:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Sudan was relatively quiescent on the jihadi front internationally because it was ~~fending off threats of internal secession with~~ conducting jihad against the animist, Christian and racially-black south.

Fixed it for you, Zhang Fei.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-21 16:47|| 2011-03-21 16:47|| Front Page Top

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