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Originally Posted by La Flames Fan
This is kind of the problem though...the West keeps propping up these dictatorships which benefit the West and no one else. The people suffer, corruption is rampant and for what? Oil? Resources? Army Bases? Torture centres? Money, money, money?
The people want Gadhafi gone, they, like the Egyptians, want a democratically elected president. They deserve that...it's high time the West stops dictating who will lead and who will not.
The days of dictatorships are hopefully coming to an end.
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I wouldn't go as far to say the West has "propped up" Gadhafi. The USA had pretty stringent economic sanctions placed on Lybia until 2004.
What occured after 2004 was more of a normalization of relations, but I wouldn't describe it as "propping up" in any way, shape, or form