Posts tagged ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

March 23, 2011

When Is Humanitarian Intervention Justified?

by Steve Dana

Like a lot of Americans, I am perplexed with our government.  There must be some rationale for joining the coalition to attack Libya, but I am just too damn stupid to know what it is.

I doubt there is a person in our country that doesn’t feel for the victims of Gaddafi in Libya, but we felt bad for literally thousands, maybe millions of other victims of dictators during the past 25 years when we didn’t take action.  What is the difference with Libya?

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