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The kings of Bahrain figured that the protesters were dangerous to his regime, so he ordered the army to send in anti-riot police. They shot at the demonstrators, threw tear gas at them and detained over 250, 44 of which have disappeared. Then Joe Biden comes out and says that talks is the way to go. What about providing logistical support to those protesters? Are we leaving them to the wolves, like you said we did in Iraq?

> Unfortunately we have 'Iraq', North Korea amongst others which have drained Trillions of $ and tied up a fair proportion of troops.

So we can spare money and planes for Libya. We can send weapons to the rebels (in case anyone noticed, those rebels are armed to the teeth. I wonder who supplied the weapons.)

I think we are just making excuses for our double standard. Bahrain is OK because they run big banking consortiums and sell cheap oil. Libya is not, because Gaddafi nationalized the oil industry. I don't buy the pro-democracy ideology. I suppose it is acceptable to let Bahrain oppress its population because they are mostly Shia muslims. Libya is a different story. We do oil deals with Gaddafi when it is politically and economically convenient, and when it is convenient we bomb him too. Maybe I am the only who sees oil as the main motivation in all of this. If Libya had no oil, would any of this be happening? Would any of our governments care?