Western countries to invade Libya to combat Islamist militants

originally posted by: MrSpad

originally posted by: Britguy
So we aided, funded, armed Islamic Jihadists to remove Gadaffi, destroying the entire country in the process, and now we need to send in troops to fight those same Islamic Jihadists?

I swear the people in power making these decisions have very large stock portfolios in the arms industry and are complete psychopaths. The very same people that created the problem now say we must send our own citizens over there to fix things again. How about someone in the military actually grows a pair and airdrops Cameron and all the others who made this mess in the first place right into the middle of Tripoli?

many of those now fleeing across the Med are a direct result of the wars we have instigated in their own countries, but never let a manufactured opportunity go to waste. Hell, if a few grunts on the ground get offed, it's a small price to pay for profits.

If that is the way thing worked sure. Of course I am sure you are aware that the Jihadist that are causing the problems were not in Libya during the war they came later on the run from the French and African forces in Mali. We did not start the Libyan civil war and only got involved as entire cities were about to be massacred. If we had done nothing likely Libya we be seeing intense fighting with Egyptian and Chadian forces involved as well. What we have in Libya is not good, although it is slowly moving that way but, it better than if we had done nothing.

Actually no, Ghadafi wasn't about to massacre anyone. You still believe that BS they spoon fed you? In fact, Ghadifi was intentionally trying to avoid massacres, because he knew it would lead to global outcry. NATO still went in anyway because it was never about protecting people.

The intelligence community gathered no specific evidence of an impending genocide in Libya in spring 2011, undercutting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s primary argument for using the U.S. military to remove Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power, an event that has left his country in chaos, according to officials with direct knowledge of the dispute.

Source: www.washingtontimes.com...