You think they will be less beholden if the only assistance they get from the US/UK and France is tens of millions of dollars worth of bombing that will obliterate what little infrastructure Libya still has?
I think that if they want/require help, it should be done properly via the UN. Really, the only reason our troops should go anywhere under the US flag is if we're going to take over and proclaim it ours or if we have treaty obligations. If we're going to go into Libya, fine, but it'd better be as the 53rd state, right after Iraq and Afghanistan become the 51st and 52nd. If we want to play American Empire, then we need to be American Empire. Also, we have more important things in our own hemisphere to worry about, like Costa Rica and Mexico.
Why accept the vile American help? Because the US/UK are unlikely to toss you into a hole, torture you with a vengence and then line you up against a wall and shoot you, your family and your tribe.
Nah, we just sell you out to whoever the modern version of the United Fruit Company is and boss your new "democratic" puppet government around. You'll only get waterboarded or Gitmotized if you're against our new selected regime.
C'mon, at least we can be done with the stupid idealism schtick and call our imperialism what it is. Be honest about it.
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I think that if they want/require help, it should be done properly via the UN. Really, the only reason our troops should go anywhere under the US flag is if we're going to take over and proclaim it ours or if we have treaty obligations. If we're going to go into Libya, fine, but it'd better be as the 53rd state, right after Iraq and Afghanistan become the 51st and 52nd. If we want to play American Empire, then we need to be American Empire. Also, we have more important things in our own hemisphere to worry about, like Costa Rica and Mexico.
Why accept the vile American help? Because the US/UK are unlikely to toss you into a hole, torture you with a vengence and then line you up against a wall and shoot you, your family and your tribe.
Nah, we just sell you out to whoever the modern version of the United Fruit Company is and boss your new "democratic" puppet government around. You'll only get waterboarded or Gitmotized if you're against our new selected regime.
C'mon, at least we can be done with the stupid idealism schtick and call our imperialism what it is. Be honest about it.