"Libya: British Army ready for mission at 24 hours’ notice"

Jokester said:
We're talking about full out civil war in Libya. If it escalates and pushes oil over the $200 a barrel, it will push other oppressed nations over the edge, particularly places like Saudi and Iran which escalates things even more. The ultimate end game being complete economic meltdown in the world economy and mass civil disobediency in multiple nations all over the world, including perhaps even the UK.

Once the price of petrol and food sky rockets, people get angry. Very angry.

Edit: And a precedence has already been set in Kosovo - and oil wasn't even involved there.
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2012? :p:p
 
Nikumba said:
Fair enough, so where were we in Eygpt, Tunisa, and other countries?

We sat on the fence and said "We think you should stop doing that"

It is only because he has oil are we posturing military force
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They Egyptian and Tunisian regimes weren't routinely shooting their own civilians in the streets or bombing them and both regimes agreed to step down in the wake of the protests.

Do you not think that the reaction to the protests has been somewhat different in Libya and that deliberately shooting civilians on a large scale perhpas warrant's military action in itself.

Kosovo doesn't have much in the way of oil yet we also intervened there for similar reasons.
 
Nikumba said:
Fair enough, so where were we in Eygpt, Tunisa, and other countries?

We sat on the fence and said "We think you should stop doing that"

It is only because he has oil are we posturing military force
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And also because the governments of Egypt & Tunisia were not rampaging on a killing spree against anyone who didnt share thier views on the current leadership
 
Zip said:
If it help to remove the nut of a president they have then they should
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Why exactly??...what gives them the right to do so??...look at Iraq, what a major **** up that is and then look at Afghanistan..another **** up there with people on both sides getting killed.

As for Libya...oil innit??...nothing else there to go in there for. I would have hoped that our govt would learned from past mistakes ie Iraq/Afghanistan and not meddle in another countries business....let them deal with it...if it goes to civil war, which it has in a roundabout way then let them deal with the mess....do we really need anymore of our soldiers killed for no real reason??.
 
DustyMiller said:
And also because the governments of Egypt & Tunisia were not rampaging on a killing spree against anyone who didnt share thier views on the current leadership
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But they are in the Ivory coast, where the election loser has taken power and wont give it up.

The other day the army opened fire on a peaceful womens protect march, killing 7 of them...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/03/ivory-coast-women-killed

but lets not be fickle now, no BP involvement means no army involvement right?
 
I say if the oil is that important then go in there and clean house. It's simple. Us before them. It's basic human nature. The strong exploit the weak to maintain their own strength. It's only in recent centuries that its become moraly wrong to do so ( to the degree that those in power pussy foot around such matters) but logicaly it's the best course of action. I say get out of Afghanistan, it's not really doing anything beneficial to our country (other than willy waving our current level of power and trying to come across as humaitarian goody two shoes) and focus on securing our economic future in other parts of the Middle East/Africa/other Third World countries.
 
[TW]Fox;18603781 said:
Like it or not oil price and the supply of oil is CRITICAL for our economy.
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Especially after the failure of the last 2 governments over the past 33 years to build nuclear

Equally consumer fuel prices can easily be dropped by cutting the tax/duty.
 
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