Am I to take it you were therefore in favour of Qaddafi remaining?

Fisk you can dream on....

@Ufu4847

6 ай бұрын

If Russia and Iran didn’t help it would have been the end of Bashar al-Assad.

That's simplistic idealism. What if, as in Iraq, the population wants the dictator overthrown but they don't have the means to do it internally?

Ending dictatorships through foreign interventions which lead to less progressive and equally repressive governments is bad. Everyone wanted to cry for Libya and now Syria. The West needs to learn its not our right to interfere with other nations internal politics. Fisk championed the downfall of Qaddafi, which has led to extremism in Libya. It may sound righteous to support rebellions, but you must be aware and responsible for the consequences of what you advocated.

I am in favor of people deciding their own fate. If Libyans could not remove Qaddafi themselves, then too bad. Regardless of what we like to believe in the white world, Libya was as developed as any country outside of Europe and America.

Rubbish, that's why you don't have a creditable source? Only the central banks of Belgium, Greece, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and the US Federal Reserve have private shareholders.

That's the price you pay for having strong, unwavering opinions. Sooner or later, you're going to come across as a pompous pretentious phony for one simple reason: no one can be right all of the time.

I used to think that until I saw how loyal he is to Al Jazeera, which has become a propaganda channel for Qatari geopolitical interests.

Spare me the jingoist diatribe. I'm about as anti-imperialist as any person you will meet. I was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I constantly talk about US imperialism and terrorism. I'm am fully aware that the Shiite uprising shortly after the first Gulf war probably would've overthrown Saddam. But that's not the point. You said if Libyan's could not remove Gaddafi, too bad. As I said, I'm no imperialist but I'm also not an isolationist. Internationalism can be a good thing.

The family BUSINESS (ASS.AD / Mafia) is almost over :-)

@joemoody7440

3 жыл бұрын

Didnt work out very well haha

It's hilarious that you equate Syria and Iran with the Soviet Union, which you don't seem to have a clue about either. How do you "win them all"? If Iraq was such a failure, Afghanistan is a failure also, the Taliban are still strong and will outlive the US presence in Afghanistan..

Do you know what Libya was like under Gaddhafi? He was a basketcase, imagine if you lived under a mentally ill dictator? I have friends who have lived in Libya before and after and they say it is infinitely better now as a free country where the people decide their destiny. I have been to Syria myself and I can tell you first-hand that it will be a better place with Assad gone, I've never seen people living in such fear anywhere else in the Middle East except Palestine ironically.

@gatgoggle

6 жыл бұрын

excitedsynapses infinitely better as a free country?!? 😳 tell us how a the slave trade defines a 'free country'?