Resize: A A A The current military intervention in Libya by the West has been marketed with the claim that its purpose, as French President Sarkozy put it, is "to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that has forfeited all claim to legitimacy." Behind this humanitarian idealism, however, lurk a host of questions and dangers, reflecting wishful thinking rather than a prudent foreign policy.First we should acknowledge that the intervention is an American show. The French and British, and perhaps a few Arab nations like Qatar, may provide some...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/21/foreign_policy_as_wishful_thinking_252401.html
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