Comment Re:Who is the new dictator? (Score 1) 271
You down play genocide by colloquially referring to it as "it would not have been good for the people, but since when do any governments care about the people".
Where is this downplaying genocide? Or are you of the big illusion that governments are inherently good?
That is evil, even if you are too ignorant to have intended it.
Since "evil" is 100% about intention, your sentence does not make sense.
You declare that governments are all bad, and thus that genocide really is nothing new. As though there are no degrees of bad that a government can fall under. Gaddafi was going to commit a widespread genocide against his opposition. Your defense for not stopping it amounts to observing that America's congress doesn't care about the American people either, so they are just as bad and no sense trading one bad government for another.
You downplay genocide because you want to take pot shots at NATO and the west to point out that yes, they are bad and have done evil things too.
Put on our big boy pants and face the real world. Every nation the world over has done horrible, terrible things to masses of people. America is not special in that regard. In order to try and make live better for people, sometimes that means working against a common enemy, like the rebels are working with NATO to remove Gaddafi. Removing Gaddafi doesn't guarantee a golden age for Libyan people. It just aborts the guaranteed retaliatory genocide Gaddafi would have enacted without his defeat, and a slim hope for a better future that was impossible without Gaddafi's removal. That is a good thing, however bleak the circumstances may be.