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cali

(114,904 posts) Mon May 16, 2016, 01:27 PM May 2016

We are going to start arming the Libyan government against ISIS

Good luck with that as there is no body governing what was Libya.

Story here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36300525

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We are going to start arming the Libyan government against ISIS (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP

That'll go well, I'm sure. Like all the other interventions we've done in the Nay May 2016 #1

That seems to be a sensible, centrist policy. Warren Stupidity May 2016 #2

That was funny. I'm not laughing. cali May 2016 #3

Nay

(12,051 posts)

1. That'll go well, I'm sure. Like all the other interventions we've done in the

Reply to cali (Original post)

Mon May 16, 2016, 01:38 PM

May 2016

past 30 years.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

2. That seems to be a sensible, centrist policy.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Mon May 16, 2016, 01:46 PM

May 2016

The important thing is create stabile instability, to establish an ordered chaos. Hopefully we can identify roughly equal "good guy" and "bad guy" factions and balance the situation.

As a sensible centrist myself I will be enthusiastically voting for Nope, No Change, and More of the Same this fall.

cali

(114,904 posts)

3. That was funny. I'm not laughing.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #2)

Mon May 16, 2016, 01:55 PM

May 2016

The reality is too sobering.

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