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Were we right to get involved in Libya?

  • Yes

    Votes: 306 50.9%

  • No

    Votes: 295 49.1%
  • Total voters
    601
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XeNoN89 said:
I think we should stop interfering with other countries business regardless of what is happening there.
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We can't we need the oil even more now the greens will never let us build more nuclear power plants.

We used to get most of Libya's Oil, not any more !! thats why the US has had a sudden change of heart.

http://rt.com/news/libya-oil-gaddafi-arab/


The West is to be forgotten. We will not give them our oil’ - Gaddafi
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thats why the US has had a sudden change of heart.
 
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I have no idea what the government(s) hope to gain from this, it certainly isn't about democracy or defending civilians because this is a civil war, nothing more and nothing less.

They hope the other side will favour them I guess but I don't really think the rewards will be worth it in the long run.
 
badcompany said:
We can't we need the oil even more now the greens will never let us build more nuclear power plants.

We used to get most of Libya's Oil, not any more !! thats why the US has had a sudden change of heart.
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Meh, we don't get their oil, multinational firms who may or may not be listed on the LSE do and it gets sold at the market rate. If Russian oil companies (who are basically western anyway) get contracts we still get the oil and we still pay the same.

The building of stadiums, palaces, offices and motorways is far far more lucrative for British firms.
 
Telescopi said:
I have no idea what the government(s) hope to gain from this, it certainly isn't about democracy or defending civilians because this is a civil war, nothing more and nothing less.

They hope the other side will favour them I guess but I don't really think the rewards will be worth it in the long run.
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Not entirely true. If a minority has much better weapons that the majority and prevent the majority from having democracy through the use of them then it can be about democracy. Many people would argue that is the case in Libya.
 
Why does everyone on overclockers always assume that it's all about Oil? You are not giving out the orders so how do you magically know that it could not just be about helping out a country in need?
 
AGD said:
Not entirely true. If a minority has much better weapons that the majority and prevent the majority from having democracy through the use of them then it can be about democracy. Many people would argue that is the case in Libya.
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It's Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, basically.

We have as much right to be there picking sides as France does parking a carrier off Anglesey and demanding freedom for Wales.

It isn't Tunisia and it isn't Egypt - it's sandy and they look funny, but seriously you need to get past that.
 
We have no place in someone elses civil war. We are not the world police. Leave them to it. Whoever wins, will want us to buy their oil.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
Why does everyone on overclockers always assume that it's all about Oil? You are not giving out the orders so how do you magically know that it could not just be about helping out a country in need?
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It may be about oil, oil companies are very powerful lobbies in their respective countries but I think the basic theory is it'll be easy, cheap, and the new leadership can't be worse then Gadaffi and will be more sympathetic to our interests.

Seems perfectly reasonable, can't possibly go wrong.
 
Another excuse to murder a bunch of shepherds and get soldiers killed, in a country that has nothing to do with us, apart from oil. Sound familiar?

This makes me sound a little cruel, but what about the constant civil wars going on in Africa and South America that we just ignore?
 
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