Who's Next!?....

It would have been hard to imagine 3 years ago that Obama would have been about the same as W. Bush in their foreign intervention policies.  Sure, Obama's intervention is with less troops but is it really that different??

I am hugely opposed to Canada's involvement in Libya.  The U.N. says we can bomb them, so we do it?  Who the hell is the U.N.?  We should not be putting our citizens lives and tax money on the line at the behest of the U.N.  They have caused enough problems with their handling of different conflicts over the last number of years.  We live in Canada, we are Canadians.  Let us protect our border and use our military to defend our freedoms.  Our troops should not be ordered out at the request of a foreign body. 

We have known that Gadafi was an idiot for the last 30 years...what changed now?  Now we are bombing them to help a rebel army get in power.  Do we know who these rebels are?  Can we guarantee that they will be less corrupt then the present government?

I have always felt that we in Canada do not have to worry about terrorist attacks like other countries do.  All of the security measures we take to streamline us with the U.S. is more for their benefit than ours.  I strongly feel that the more you push your values on other countries, the more they will resent you and the less safe you are.

If we keep up our involvement in Afganistan and now Libya and who knows where else we will go in the Middle East, the less safe we are from radicals and nationalists who will resent us for our involvement.  When that happens, hate breeds, and the end result may very well be an attack of some sort.  We are involved in countries whose politics have almost never been secure or logical in our sense.  It's silly to think that we can just usher in democracy and that everyone will love it.