Economics and similar, for the sleep-deprived
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Update: seemingly not
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Irresponsibility to protect
Just to note that, when you think of what's gone on in Libya and Cote d'Ivoire, the logical consequence of the combination of:
1) There are situations which would warrant our intervention everywhere
and
2) Of course we cannot intervene everywhere
is
3) We can do whatever we like.
In other words, the Libyans who are now complaining about our not doing enough for them, like the Iraqi Shia post 1991, have more of a point than one would care to admit. We're moving dangerously in the direction of a new world order of "intervention at whim".
Edit: This is why I keep clutching at the straw of the UNSC; not because it's a pearl of great price in terms of a decision-making body, but because it's the only remote prospect I can think of for anything approaching an objective criterion for deciding where and how to intervene. The alternative is complete discretion, which in practice means caprice.Labels: institute of military littlebitobstetrics
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