Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Reviving Humanitarian Interventionism

Massimo Calabresi, Time
President Barack Obama says he's intervening to prevent atrocities in Libya. But details of behind-the-scenes debates at the White House show he's going to war in part to rehabilitate an idea.Three weeks ago, I posted an article headlined, “Will Obama Order U.S. Intervention in Libya?” It began: “It seems preposterous to suggest in the wake of Iraq that the U.S. might intervene militarily to help bring down another Arab regime. But the growing danger of a humanitarian catastrophe created by Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, combined with a surprisingly...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/21/reviving_humanitarian_interventionism_252353.html

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