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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:42 AM Original message |
Can we please get past at least one dumb argument about Libya? |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
1. $600 million is a reasonably low cost? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Indeed, you gotta wonder what "expensive" looks like, and then you remember Afghanistan. nt |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. You are raising the crucial issues here. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Well, I certainly hope I'm wrong and Gadhafi leaves rather quickly and peacefully... |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. These are serious concerns. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. You lead with an ad hominem attack instead of recognizing the validity of differing opinion? |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Calling an argument silly is not an ad hominem attack. |
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zorahopkins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. Not A Dumb Argument At All |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Disagree strongly. |
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denverbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. If they already own the fields, how is supporting the rebels helping them? |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. My understanding was that those existing oil contracts weren't on very favorable terms to Europe. |
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denverbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. That's a bit of a stretch, IMO. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. I don't think it is a matter of cost. |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
12. I have an idea... |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. I have no position on Libya to disagree with. |
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Zanzoobar (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. We could easily blow up a bunch of stuff in Sudan for a lot less money. |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I guess I don't know much about the situation in Sudan. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
14. The dumb argument is your's...nt |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
16. agreed. nt |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. You mean like this thread? |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
20. i think the price tag is going to keep going up |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I share that worry. |
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Windy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
21. Had the president not gone and and genocide had resulted, he would have been pummeled |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
22. These kinds of objections can be summarized quite easily |
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Distant Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
24. There is a PRESENT AND URGENT CRISIS with mass murder, oppression etc in IVORY COAST |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Thank you for the cogent reply. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
25. Unrec for labeling a point of view you disagree with as "dumb." nt |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. The other issue is, the Libyans asked.. no, BEGGED the UN to help., |
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MrTriumph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
27. It is not our fight. We should never have gotten in and we must get out. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
28. I see. So any argument that you disagree with is "dumb" |
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ProgressIn2008 (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-29-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
29. "Unique situations" is being used to obscure good questions re: criteria for military intervention |
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