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I support this action fully. This isn't a popular, leftist position. However, i feel the US should have gone into other areas in the past to help stop the slaughter of people by their government or class systems.

Prior to the US joining allied nations in Europe during WWII, there was more than enough evidence of what Hitler was doing in the death camps to Jews. Yet, many dismissed this evidence on isolationist grounds. This was acting much the same as German people living near the camps- just looking the other way as far as I'm concerned. How many Jews could have been saved from their fate in the hands of the Nazis if we would have acted sooner and helped?

Sometimes, it really is about humanitarianism. Also, there is quite a different force going on in the middle eastern and north African countries going on via a new generation of rebels and protesters as far as I'm concerned. Young people realizing that their future deserves a free society. are critical in these struggles and I see a very different kind of battle for women's rights going on in this region than I have in the past. Women's Rights These protests and demonstrations and taking up arms by common people are not the product of past dynamics- there is something very different going on. Social media has brought the goals and desires of the people to a new state of awareness worldwide. And younger generations are not going to accept oppression.
I in no way think that the US or any other western nation should be involved in the forms of democracy that the people in Libya (or other countries) form.

My consciousness about this action has shifted. Seeing Arab people in several countries losing the fear they have had for decades and say enough across this region has a very different meaning to me than ever before. And the fact that women are out there- is significant.