At 10/22/11 06:51 AM, SBB wrote:
At 10/22/11 03:44 AM, PSvils wrote:
I know emotions and shit get in the way, but fuck, you guys saying it's okay to kill him right off the bat beause he was evil, is the exact same thing the USA says when invading a country: "They're evil, so we'll save the world."
nope
For starters, Gadaffi is one man who is directly responsible for decades of oppression and eventually slaughter of his own people. A country is a collection of millions of individuals and almost every single one of them have zero responsibility for the conflicts that their leaders start.
The citizens of Libya had really good living conditions. Their economy was the type other countries could only dream off.
The prices for food were fucking low. Education and medication were fucking free, free, you hear me? Where else can you find a country where there are similar conditions? Their political system was awesome, except one problem.
He was a dictator and kept his position for long. But he wasn't so bad. Countries really want to portray him as tyrant just to justify their interception into Libya.
One of my friends lived there for a few years when Gaddafi was still in power. And he said that you gotta be a fucking asshole to turn down such conditions and just fuck up a country like that.
Libya has no future now. And their oil is getting pumped. Justice served, eh