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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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makes me wonder somtimes, why we have all this trouble,in the middle east.
in 1941 our 8th army, along with the aussies fought at tobruk, to get rid of the germans from libya.
and a lot of lifes were lost on both sides.
makes me wonder what my grandad fought for somtimes, its a strange world |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Power and money corrupt. Doesn't help when we (the west) prop them up so long as we get cheap energy (oil).
Which by extension is our fault for wanting comfy lifestyles with cheap goods.
There is always a cost somewhere.
*shrugs* |
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"Power and money corrupt. Doesn't help when we (the west) prop them up so long as we get cheap energy (oil).
Which by extension is our fault for wanting comfy lifestyles with cheap goods.
There is always a cost somewhere.
*shrugs*"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"makes me wonder somtimes, why we have all this trouble,in the middle east.
in 1941 our 8th army, along with the aussies fought at tobruk, to get rid of the germans from libya.
and a lot of lifes were lost on both sides.
makes me wonder what my grandad fought for somtimes, its a strange world"
Libya didn't exist as a country in its own right until 1951. Up until then it had been a haven for most of the dodgy dealings of that area for centuries (the pirate Barbarossa was its most famous 'son' and the reason why it was known as the Barbary Coast. The Italians ruled the three main areas of what we now call Libya for decades (which is why Gadaffi referred to over throwing foreign Italian rule in one of his recent tirades).
WW2 saw an open battlefield that was north Africa and both armies rolled through it as it deemed neccessary.
It takes a stretch of the imagination to compare Libya in the days prior to 1950 to what is happening there today, and as much as I am aware of WW2 and the sacrifices made then, it has little bearing on the region as it is now. |
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