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While I'm sure you think the "it's a different President now..." is laughable, it does actually make a difference.
Like him or lump 'em, very few people in the world believe that the current administration is a bunch of lying, warmongering, moneygrubbing, oil-chasing weasels.
Can't say so much about the last bunch. Nobody believed those guys. Turned out they had a good reason.
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In the end, the results are the same...just no denying that. And thats only IF they get Khadafi. Hopefully they learned their lesson from the 91 fiasco.
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And also, the big difference is of course that this is not an invasion. If Yank troops were massing in the 10's of thousands at the border, there would be a different reaction. It would look a lot like the reaction they got last time they were saddling up.
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Perhaps, but again times have changed. The ability to comminicate to the masses from any single organizer allows for a totally different dynamic that never existed before. Of course knowing that they are already organized on the ground and the obvious change of attitude spreading throughout that part of the world in regards to the despots involved, makes no ground troops a much easier call than it would have been even a decade ago. Just something as simple as gathering intel on the ground from rebels/opposition is now available in a way it has never been. They have replaced ground troops in a way. It's an amazing and truly fascinating change in how these sort of things will be determined moving forward. Just think how it was when Mubarek tried to "shutdown the internet"...the outside was still able to get minute by minute updates. It's a new world.