The Intervention Question?

[snerfuplz]

My first post here and I would identify myself as a Democratic Socialist. This is inspired by criticism from the Left on Western intervention in Libya. Now I was following the events when the revolution first broke out and I was an early supporter of intervention to prevent the fall of Eastern Libya. But my peers derided it as imperialism etc. I am interested to see if my members here support intervention if it is a truly grass root pro democracy movement or should all intervention be banned?

[psgchisolm]

My first post here and I would identify myself as a Democratic Socialist. This is inspired by criticism from the Left on Western intervention in Libya. Now I was following the events when the revolution first broke out and I was an early supporter of intervention to prevent the fall of Eastern Libya. But my peers derided it as imperialism etc. I am interested to see if my members here support intervention if it is a truly grass root pro democracy movement or should all intervention be banned?Welcome, we have a couple of Democratic Socialists here including myself. I would also suggest making a post in the introductions forum. You will find that many members on here do not support foreign intervention of NATO. Mainly for the sake of the nations leading the assault are imperialist and will probably turn the country into another puppet. I initially saw the No-fly zone as beneficial, then came the air strikes... After that i realized that no matter who wins. The workers lose. Anyway you will find many members are strictly anti-imperialist for any intervention no matter the reason. You will find the minority who do not condone the imperialist advances but think of it as a lesser of the two evils. Usually it's either between a dictator or a Liberal Democracy that are basically puppets of imperialist nations.

[Kamos]

Well, first of all, you'll find people here spouting that Qaddafi is, in fact, a progressive himself. Dismiss that, it's moronic. As for the argument itself, Libya is between the rock of Qaddafi and the hard place of the imperialists, who seek to topple Qaddafi's regime only to replace it with their own puppet (just like they have done many times in the Middle East and different other regions already). Intervention in itself isn't bad - in fact, intervening to save the people of Libya from their own dictator who butchers them is good, even if it won't help the revolution right away - the motives of the coalition who are intervening in Libya are the reason why this particular intervention is not to be supported (any more than Qaddafi).