No, Libya's Not a Core National Security Interest.

[Xue Sheng]

No, Libya's Not a Core National Security Interest. But So What?

Foreign policy specialists like former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have insisted there is nothing in Libya worth a major U.S.-led military operation. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, meanwhile, has written that Libya’s proximity to core U.S. interests is “tangential at best.”
Spot on, but so what?

 

[Aiki Lee]

Isn't it enough to oust a tyrant? Why would we have to get something out of it?

 

[Touch Of Death]

Isn't it enough to oust a tyrant? Why would we have to get something out of it?

Not to mention hearing we let those people die for the rest of our lives. We can't wait for Reagan's son to finish the job his dad started.
Sean

 

[Xue Sheng]

Isn't it enough to oust a tyrant? Why would we have to get something out of it?

Well…that is one way of looking at it…. Of course given the history of the region… another way to look at it is that all we are doing creating a power vacuum to make way for the next tyrant... and if that is the case...what then?