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Originally posted by Advantage
reply to post by jude11
And then this comes out of my country...
thehill.com...
This gets more absurd by the day. We have no definition of the mission, but we're using the military to accomplish... hmm.... something. We dont know what.. but we're accomplishing something. Unprecedented stupidity IMO.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by jude11
Good for them "Aborting" is always an option when collateral damage is a very real possibility.
I wouldn't have spun it as you have by saying they "refused". "Aborting" is a legitimate option. I just wish more of that was done. Would have lowered the human costs over the past few years elsewhere.
edit on 22-3-2011 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by jude11
Good for them "Aborting" is always an option when collateral damage is a very real possibility.
I wouldn't have spun it as you have by saying they "refused". "Aborting" is a legitimate option. I just wish more of that was done. Would have lowered the human costs over the past few years elsewhere.
edit on 22-3-2011 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Eventually China will have to be contended with, they have the capability to amass, a 200 million man army.
China has the world's largest armed forces, with 2.3 million troops (1.7 million in the army. 220,000 in the navy and 420,000 in the air force) in 2007. It used to be even larger. In 1994 there were 2,930,000 troops (2.3 million in the army, 250,000 in the navy, 470,000 in the air force), plus 1.2 million reserves. By contrast the United States has 1.45 million troops; Russia, 1.24 million troops; and Argentina, 65,000 troops. About 35 percent of the Chinese defense budget is spent on personnel costs.
Originally posted by minkey53
What have China said to North Korea over the last 40 + years with them killing their own people by starvation etc.?
Diddly squat is my guess!
There are plenty of other Countries in the World where their leaders are scum to their own people.
Why has nothing been done about them and why is Libya being picked on?
I don't know, maybe the word OIL comes into it?
The 1st of September marks the anniversary of the opening of the major stage of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects. The leader of the so-called advanced countries, the United States of America cannot bring itself to acknowledge Libya's Great Man-Made River.
Originally posted by minkey53
I don't know, maybe the word OIL comes into it?
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by hawaii50th
Eventually China will have to be contended with, they have the capability to amass, a 200 million man army.
ummm, r u sure bout that number ??
since their total population is only
1,347,740,174 as of Jan. 2010
that would mean 1 in 6 would
be active military.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by boondock-saint
200 million man army is theoretically possible (however unlikely) Military service there is compulsory
A chorus of voices from government officials around the world have condemned (or at least questioned) the decision by a handful of western countries (in tandem with some Arab allies) to launch air strikes on military targets in Libya. Five members of the United Nations Security Council -- Brazil, China, India, Russia and Germany – abstained from a vote on the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya (signaling their opposition to it). However, many other states have also expressed their indignation to the military campaign in Libya. Here are a sampling of such comments from government officials and scholars who are opposed to foreign intervention in Libya: “What is happening in a country, within their internal affairs, no external powers should interfere in it. Nobody, not a couple of countries, can take that decision to change a particular regime. Whether a regime will change or not will depend on the people of that particular country, not by any external forces." --Pranab Mukherjee, India’s finance minister
Originally posted by Firefly_
China and Russia can go to hell along with every other government on this planet. They are ALL as bad as each other, they all know what they are doing and they dont give a crap about a single one of us. It is us who will pay the price, not them. They will all be safe with their ill gotten gains and their shelters while the rest of us are plunged into a literal hell on earth. We need to destroy every single corrupt world leader and politician before they destroy us.
Originally posted by pirhanna
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
Why call for a ceasefire now?
WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY WHEN the libyans were ruthlessly EXTERMINATED by the CCP's buddy Gaddafi????!!!
Oh wait...birds of a feather flock together. These 2 govs had never CARED about humanity, except for their own rule. TianAnMen massacres must had been lost to their memory.
Perhaps it is time for the chinese masses to stage an immediate uprising? Need no further evidence on how the illegitimate CCP ruler intends to rule china with bullets, paid off the backs of the our fellow chinese brothers and sisters!!!
I've been somewhat surprised at how many pro-Gaddafi people there are on ATS.
While I'm totally wise to all the manipulations of western governments, that doesn't minimize the fact that the Libyan people need to be free from Gaddafi, and if nothing was done, they would be slaughtered to preserve the dictatorial regime.
And screw those two-faced Arab governments that wanted this then did an about face as soon as Gadaffi makes false claims that the west is only there killing hospital workers and children (like that makes any sense).