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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 04:15 AM Original message |
US ally boils its own people: why aren't we invading? |
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polly7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 04:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Allies indeed ... |
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NuclearDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 04:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Uzbekistan kicked the US out of Karshi-Khanabad in 2005 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 04:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. US is sending them aid rather than cruise missles. |
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NuclearDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 05:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Compared to, what, the $90-100 million we were giving before our relations deteriorated? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 05:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. it seems to me that these delicate decisions about whether to send dictators |
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NuclearDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 05:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Hm, I didn't know we'd gotten permission to use the airbase again |
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polly7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 05:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The west knew of Uzbek's horrible treatment of its own people well |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. Is being selective supposed to somehow be an argument against intervention? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. more like an argument against arguments citing humanitarian motivations. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:09 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. For me humanitarianism is primary. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. you aren't in charge of foreign policy. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:43 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Because there aren't 100 other OPs bashing those various humanitarian issues. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. there aren't any OPs even *talking* about most of them. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 07:01 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Right, you actually don't care about these 100s of crises' you only care about making sure... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Unlike yourself, I'm not talking up the intervention as a humanitarian endeavor. |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:12 AM Response to Original message |
12. How much oil is there? n/t |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
13. recommend |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
17. What the hell is this, the Middle Ages?? |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 07:20 AM Response to Original message |
18. If it's an oil state, it isn't torture /nt |
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