Reply #16: I don't support it but I'm also not against it [View All]

[MedleyMisty]

I don't have enough information to judge. I do have enough information to know that it is very very different from Iraq and Afghanistan. And that whoever our president is has no effect on my opinion of it. I'm not an authoritarian follower, so I don't do cults of personality. Also I don't think that political labels mean very much, and I don't really care about Team Red vs Team Blue. I care about humans vs fascist corporate psychopaths.

Also, as far as I can tell this is a UN action and not ours - frankly I was surprised that we weren't one of the five countries that abstained on the vote.

It is possible to care about the fascism here and to also care about the Libyans. We are all human, and the revolution is global. If the Libyans can win theirs, it helps to keep the revolution going.

Which, like someone said in an earlier thread, the military action could be because Libya is a strategic location for putting down the other revolutions. Like I said - I don't have enough information to know what is really going on here or to be able to predict how it will turn out.

Anyway - I am not sure how caring about the Libyans and hoping that they succeed in their revolution means that I don't care about stuff here. If I wanted to be troll-y, I could say that's very much like Bush's "You're either with us or against us."

But I won't. ;)