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Cimarron29414 · 03-29-2011, 06:59 AM

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The thread isn't really about Iraq or Afghanistan, so I didn't feel I needed to compare and contrast my positions. This lack of information led you to assumptions about what they must be. Doesn't my proposed isolationist stance directly contradiction your assumptions regarding my support of Iraq and Afghanistan? I mean, at least give me credit for some consistency, if anything. For the record, I don't support the domestic surveillance, which you should have derived from my libertarian tendencies. Again, I didn't know I needed to state my position on EVERY federal issue in a thread on Libya. I don't think that's what you want me to do. Is it?

To go back to my original posts in this thread, as a compassionate human being, I watched the impending slaughter of a people who seemingly want freedom and liberty and democracy...or at least a peaceful end to this form of dictatorship...and I didn't want those people to be slaughtered. I wanted somebody, anybody, to do something (much like you with the Quaran burning). However, because of our involvement in so many other "pet projects", our debt, the inevitable (and realized) negative opinion of our KaPows killing muslims, and the potential longevity of any action - I felt that we should support with our vote, not our shiny weapons systems. There were other countries that can, should, and did step up. I question whether we needed to drop our bombs when other countries wanted to (and did) drop theirs. I think our federal government, oops, not our federal government because only one branch decided to use our shiny weapons systems. I believe our President should have used his speech to explain to us why we couldn't just vote for the resolution which enabled France and Britian a quick and decisive enforcement of the no-fly zone. I think he should have explained why WE needed to drop bombs. I don't think Obama supplied that. His speech was a compilation of every talking point of the past 10 days. It was disappointing.

So, my "shallowness" is really a defense mechanism against actions I have concluded are not in our best interest and can only watch with my hands thrown in the air. And I hope you see that conclusion was drawn out of far more consideration than the credit you provided...which was none.

P.S. I just brewed one of the best batches of non-Lite beer yet. I look forward to your visit so I can share.

03-29-2011, 06:59 AM	#156 (permalink)
Cimarron29414 Still Free Location: comfortably perched at the top of the bell curve!	rb- The thread isn't really about Iraq or Afghanistan, so I didn't feel I needed to compare and contrast my positions. This lack of information led you to assumptions about what they must be. Doesn't my proposed isolationist stance directly contradiction your assumptions regarding my support of Iraq and Afghanistan? I mean, at least give me credit for some consistency, if anything. For the record, I don't support the domestic surveillance, which you should have derived from my libertarian tendencies. Again, I didn't know I needed to state my position on EVERY federal issue in a thread on Libya. I don't think that's what you want me to do. Is it? To go back to my original posts in this thread, as a compassionate human being, I watched the impending slaughter of a people who seemingly want freedom and liberty and democracy...or at least a peaceful end to this form of dictatorship...and I didn't want those people to be slaughtered. I wanted somebody, anybody, to do something (much like you with the Quaran burning). However, because of our involvement in so many other "pet projects", our debt, the inevitable (and realized) negative opinion of our KaPows killing muslims, and the potential longevity of any action - I felt that we should support with our vote, not our shiny weapons systems. There were other countries that can, should, and did step up. I question whether we needed to drop our bombs when other countries wanted to (and did) drop theirs. I think our federal government, oops, not our federal government because only one branch decided to use our shiny weapons systems. I believe our President should have used his speech to explain to us why we couldn't just vote for the resolution which enabled France and Britian a quick and decisive enforcement of the no-fly zone. I think he should have explained why WE needed to drop bombs. I don't think Obama supplied that. His speech was a compilation of every talking point of the past 10 days. It was disappointing. So, my "shallowness" is really a defense mechanism against actions I have concluded are not in our best interest and can only watch with my hands thrown in the air. And I hope you see that conclusion was drawn out of far more consideration than the credit you provided...which was none. P.S. I just brewed one of the best batches of non-Lite beer yet. I look forward to your visit so I can share. __________________ Gives a man a halo, does mead. "Here lies The_Jazz: Killed by an ambitious, sparkly, pink butterfly." Last edited by Cimarron29414; 03-29-2011 at 07:07 AM..