# US launches military action against Lybia

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**Created:** [March 19, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-launches-military-action-against-lybia/257418 "2011-03-19T14:33:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike3/32/6350_2.png) [@Mike3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike3)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/us-launches-military-action-against-lybia/257418/41 "2011-03-20T15:10:36Z")

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> [@FS: Euro Tails for e36 BMW](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-euro-tails-for-e36-bmw/29692/5):
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> _This is the price to pay to be the greatest superpower and leader of the western world, you take the reins on global incidences._
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> And everyone talking about how THIS is a waste of money? Please. We spent billions of dollars every day in Afghanistan alone, plus $500b more in defense spending around the world. Droppin a couple mil in a few tomahawks is a drop in the bucket. If everyone suddenly gives a shit about spending, fix the big problems, not the small ones like this that are saving a few ten thousand lives.
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> Personally? If the rest of the world wants to kill each other and not us for once, go for it. Either nuke and pave the whole middle east and north Africa or let’s mind our own damn business. America - fumbling foreign policy and making new enemies since 1950.
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> /rant

Woo was wondering when someone would pick up on that.

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