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Topic Started: Apr 26 2013, 04:59 PM (468 Views)
madfor4

Listening to Cameron, on PM, the fool appears to have learned nothing from Iraq or the Libyan debacle (thanks for the war graves link, Norm).

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waiting4atickle
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The lesson we learn from history...

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Caro

How long do you leave ordinary people to suffer before it becomes callous to ignore events, though. I read a book by a woman from Burma in a refugee camp who kept on hoping for intervention from outside countries and wondered why they could be so oblivious to all the suffering the Karenne people were enduring. And there are a lot of worse things happening in Syria (which I presume this topic is about, since I don't know what Cameron is talking about - perhaps much the same as Barack Obama is saying).

How long do you step aside and live in your nice comfortable world without trying to help others? How do you know when you are making things better and when you are making them worse, either by intervening or by not? It's a very difficult issue and I doubt that people making these decisions are fools.
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Caro
Apr 26 2013, 10:18 PM
How do you know when you are making things better and when you are making them worse, either by intervening or by not?

That seems like a pretty good argument for non-intervention to me.

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madfor4

caro, As far as I can see there have been few cases where intervention has made things better and even fewer cases where one can say that things wouldn't have sorted themselves out....Imposed solutions are rarely long lasting.

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madfor4

It now appears, according to the UN, that the Rebels have used 'Sarin'....I expect a deafening silence from Cameron/Hague
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Norm Deplume
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The rebels and not the Administration?

That's a turn-up for the book!

Now, who's side are the do-gooders on?

It seems that most of the Rebels across N.Africa and the Middle East are not as democratic and peace-loving as we in the West would wish for.
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