About that "look, they are dancing in the streets thing.". As a German friend of mine pointed out

[howard112211]

it seems like Americans somehow have a deep yearning for the single time in history where they for once were actually greeted as liberators, i.e. the defeat of nazi Germany. I get the same impression from many of the threads in favor of the intervention in Libya. It seems like, to some degree, this is more about a narcissistic sentimental fantasy than about the actual humanitarian cause.

That said, whatever "dancing in the streets" our bombs generate and how many people are "thanking us", in the end that mere fact in itsself is rather meaningless. I would bet one hundered dollars that one could pick a city randomly on a globe and drop bombs on it, and the chances would be high that this would generate "dancing in the streets" in some other place.

If we did airstrikes on Jerusalem there would be a lot of "dancing in the streets". After 9/11 there was a lot of that too in some places of the world.

I am not at all impressed about people dancing in the streets about airstrikes in Tripolis.

The statement "finally something we can be proud of" is rather disgraceful in this context.

I would wait what happens when "the party is over" before I would evaluate the outcome in a postive manner.

[bobbolink]

1. So, when you contend, erroneously, that civilians are being killed by our missiles we are not

supposed to respond with the reality of the citizens of Libya?

What would be allowable for us to reply?

[howard112211]

2. Anytime you take sides in a civil war, someone will be cheering.

[bobbolink]

5. That is just what Faux is saying.

Do you know the difference between our own Revolutionary war, and our own Civil War?

Do you think our Revolutionary war was actually a civil war?

What part of Libya is fighting another part? North vs South? East vs. West? What tribe against what tribe?

Do you grasp the difference between intertribal squabbles and a popular uprising (said to be supported by at least 80% of the population) trying to overthrow a viscious dictator?

Again, your wording is straight out of Faux.

[howard112211]

7. The part of the military that has defected vs. the part that remains loyal.

[bobbolink]

8. Not being a complete sentence, I don't get the relevance.

Faux.

Fail.

[Edweird]

3. Like heroin junkies "chasing the dragon".

"Man, we felt so good about WWII"

[theoldman]

4. I think you are a little confused.

People may dance in the streets like when they are liberated in Germany. It does not mean anything if they were dancing in the streets in Bolivia.

[GreenArrow]

6. Living vicariously

through projection and wish fulfillment.

[damntexdem]

9. Why, after all, some of them may be . . . only dancing on sidewalks.

They'll dance in the streets if they win. That remains to be seen.

[gimama]

10. lately, seems like dancing in the streets is staged

"do it for the camera" ..propaganda-stuff.
'Course it may just be me, feeling cynical & cranky..
I can't get past the timing ..8th anniversary of Iraq war.
I am very sad & angry about where we're at.

[Amonester]

11. "the party" will never "be over" (it never stopped)

Global Greed(TM) is here to stay.

It was called "local greed" before, but that was when communications were not instantaneous.

It's just a name 'change' since the WWW thingy expanded all over.