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Originally Posted by Vanilla
I think it's all so horrific. Over 40,000 civilians are dead. Why is no one doing anything about it? Or are they and I'm not realising this?
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
The west tends to let these dictators hang themselves, whilst shouting threats from the sidelines.
When all is done and dusted, they then proceed to make a mess of things as they try to install some kind of democracy in the country. Which is useless, as most of these countries have no real concept of democracy.
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Well who is going to jump in? And for what reason should they?
You and I both know anyone on the political left will scream bloody murder about "warmongering" if one civilian is killed. You know thats going to happen. I can't mention Obama on this site without some self-righteous jackass screaming about drone strikes.
This coupled with the US's militaristic overreach and no one in the region asking for our help, we're not going in. So who's military is going to do the job?
France and Britain jumped on the Mali situation and people started murmurs of being dragged into another long-war. Furthermore, I'm not up on the specific policies of Hollande, but as a Socialist I assume he's anti-war, pro world-worker.
Russia has too many business deals with Iran, and China has a non-interventionist policy. So you're not getting any help.