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One key point: we were asking the French to help.
by hammerdr 16y ago
One key point: we were asking the French to help.
- jonpaul 16y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m51jMMmSOm0J:www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/20/libya.protests/index.html%3Feref%3Drss_latest%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Brss%252Fcnn_latest%2B(RSS%253A%2BMost%2BRecent)+obama+protests+site:cnn.com&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m51jMMm... I had to use a Google cache article because when I click the original CNN link it goes to a new updated article. The quote: "We have no freedom here," she said. "I speak to all the world, to America, to Mr. Obama: Please help us. We (did) nothing. We want to live a good life." Not that I support an interventionist policy, but this was shared to refute your point.
- hammerdr 16y agoI'm not fully cognizant of the situation. I wasn't saying that the Libyans aren't asking, I was just pointing out a key element that made the French intervention a fruitful one. However, there are varying degrees of asking for help. The American revolutionaries were sending formal representatives to France to plead their case. As far as I know, there is one person pleading for help being quoted by a reporter. That's a bit different.