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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:24 PM Original message |
Poll question: Assuming no ulterior motives, is invading foreign soil to prevent a civilian massacre justifiable? |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. If yes, why did this country wait to be bombed at Pearl Harbor instead of earlier invading Germany |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I don't know, why? |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. We should have, but we had more isolationist foreign policy |
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Countdown_3_2_1 (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Did we invade durring the genocide in Darfur? NO! |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Do you think we should have? |
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Countdown_3_2_1 (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. NO. |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. What's the benefit in allowing genocide to happen? |
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Countdown_3_2_1 (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 05:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Clinton was President durring the Rwanda genocide. No invasion. |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You're holding up Rwanda and the 800,000 dead as an example of why we should NOT get involved? |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Intervention is acceptable... |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 06:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
24. No, we are not policemen. The UN is. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not if you've got 17+ Intel agencies and an entire Diplomatic corps |
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Alamuti Lotus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. Should Iran, India, and China invade Afghanistan to protect against further US/NATO atrocities? |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Why shouldn't they? |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. yes.... |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
11. Justifiable? Maybe. Advisable? Hell no. Which is why most don't want U.S. troops in Libya. nt |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Most don't want *ground* troops in Libya. Most *support* the current action underway in Libya |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. More exactly what I meant. Thanks. nt |
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quinnox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. It depends on the number of lives |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. I don't like the use of the term "invading" |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I appreciate your reasoned approach. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. Only if there's reason to believe that it will improve the outcome nt |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. Heh |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
21. The burden of proof would need to be rather high. Kosovo fit for me, as would have Rwanda. |
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