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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:46 AM Aug 2013

In 2000 Gore said we should have invaded Rwanda

W in that same debate said staying out was the right thing, and that we should have stayed out of Bosnia too.

Democrats don't have a single, unified position on the use of military force. Even "real" Democrats don't. I oppose military action in Syria, but this isn't an open-or-shut case, and there's a lot of diversity of opinion on the left about using military force to stop violence against civilians. Let's try to keep these things in mind.

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In 2000 Gore said we should have invaded Rwanda (Original Post) Recursion Aug 2013 OP

I almost ended up there. MADem Aug 2013 #1

Gore's reason was for humanitarian reasons JI7 Aug 2013 #2

So was Libya. The case for intervention in Syria is humanitarian also Recursion Aug 2013 #3

i don't have a problem with that , i question going into syria also JI7 Aug 2013 #4

Words come easy. As do chivalric fantasies. Democracyinkind Aug 2013 #5

Screw the war. darkangel218 Aug 2013 #6

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. I almost ended up there.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:52 AM

Aug 2013

I got all the shots for it. Then my orders got pulled, which was just as well, I suppose.

Horrific slaughter--that will scar that country for centuries, with or without reconciliation.

JI7

(89,252 posts)

2. Gore's reason was for humanitarian reasons

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:54 AM

Aug 2013

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

3. So was Libya. The case for intervention in Syria is humanitarian also

Reply to JI7 (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 04:56 AM

Aug 2013

I oppose military action because I think it will fuck up the rest of the middle east, but it's clearly a humanitarian impetus to go.

JI7

(89,252 posts)

4. i don't have a problem with that , i question going into syria also

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:01 AM

Aug 2013

for the same reason.

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)

5. Words come easy. As do chivalric fantasies.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:52 AM

Aug 2013

Wars do not.

The notion that we could have just walked into Ruanda and start singing Kumbaya is totally silly but in that respect pretty fitting for the sick prank on the American people that the Gore campaign was.

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)

6. Screw the war.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 08:03 AM

Aug 2013

Use the money and build social healthcare and infrastructure. Other countries need help, but our people should be the priority, not viceversa.

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