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EFerrari

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Mon Aug-29-11 12:18 PM
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Libya No Model By Matthew Rothschild

Libya No Model
By Matthew Rothschild, August 29, 2011

With Qaddafi on the run, we’re now hearing about Libya being a model for future U.S. interventions.

The New York Times today reports that Administration officials say the Libyan intervention “may, in some important ways, become a model for how the United States wields force in other countries where its interests are threatened.”

I should hope not.

Because what the United States and its European allies did was “international gangsterism,” as Dennis Kucinich so colorfully put it the other day.

http://www.progressive.org/libya.html

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Mon Aug-29-11 12:25 PM
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1. I'm still trying to figure out what of our "interests" were threatened in Libya. K&R

Edited on Mon Aug-29-11 12:26 PM by Tierra_y_Libertad

The same as they were in Iraq? Afghanistan? Honduras? Nicaragua? Chile? Laos? Cambodia? Angola? Mozambique? Or, any of the other "humanitarian" interventions we indulged in?

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SavWriter

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Mon Aug-29-11 12:48 PM
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2. K and R

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xchrom

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Mon Aug-29-11 12:50 PM
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3. recommend

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Octafish

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Mon Aug-29-11 01:40 PM
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4. Whatever happened to democracy, anyway?

Glad to read that Dennis Kucinich, Matthew Rothschild and EFerrari still give a damn about it.

As for those who go along with the "Libya Model," read up on the Third Reich. They invaded Poland because it was in their national interest, too.

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