Should the West take military action to defend Arab protesters targeted by their own regimes?

Weekly Question: Should the West take military action to defend Arab protesters targeted by their own regimes?

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March 1, 2011

79 Comments → “Should the West take military action to defend Arab protesters targeted by their own regimes?”

Erik

7:39 pm

Mar 12, 2011

And, we were pretty much universally condemned for our military intervention in Iraq. Now, the same people want us to act in Libya?

Hypocrisy much?

Maybe the Egyptians (right next door), and the Saudis, who could use Egyptian airfields, should do it?

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Loretta

12:22 am

Mar 13, 2011

Where is the Arab League? Why don’t they step forward and help their own people? What about Saudi Arabia? Where is Turkey? Iran? Jordan? Anyone?

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Hameed Abid

10:15 am

Mar 13, 2011

Loreta

The Arab League???????????? They are all a waste of space! They are all dictators and tyrants, using religion and fear to subdue and gag and suppress their own people who were kept down by police states’ systems and military forces and brutality, They make people under the Stasis. KGB and Hitler and Mussolini as having a picnic?.

Turkey and Iran are not Arabs and they do not care if the Arabs shred themselves,to bits. In some cases they encourage and arm them to kill each other, by arming and supporting both sides. We have seen it happen in Iraq.The Kurds are now seemingly joining the band wagon. They stand to gain if the Arabs are fighting amongst themselves, as it happened in Iraq’s middle and South over the past eight years?

Iran is apparently helping with the instability all the way through, but no one is taking any
notice or trying to do anything about it.

The UN? Well as toothless as you can get?

Kind regards

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H.Y. Goh.

8:45 am

Mar 25, 2011

Goh.

The West should bomb to kill Gaddafi as he is the perpetrator of the Lockerbie bombing. It would be belated justice for all the innocent victims. After that just let the barbaric Arabs settle their differences among themselves.

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ticotitao

10:11 am

Mar 25, 2011

Israel took less than 7 days to defeat the Eyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies in 1967…
Why are 11 NATO countries taking more than 6 days to neutralize an ill equipped Syrian army?
Has Lybia become a pretext for the testing of new weapons and out of date munition?

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Niklas Schier

4:11 am

Jul 28, 2011

No I fear the that militant Isla is behind many of these protests and when its all over this region will be completely taken over by worse regimes than the ones being replaced.

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Abu Nudnik

9:32 pm

Sep 05, 2011

Absolutely not.

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