Thursday, March 24, 2011

This is War Lite, with No Leadership or Goals

Clifford Orwin, Globe & Mail
Humanitarian military interventions such as the one under way in Libya typically face just two main obstacles. The first is, they're humanitarian. The second is, they're military interventions.Humanitarianism means never having to say you’re sorry. The wars it generates present themselves as peace by other means. Not politics by other means – Clausewitz’s famous definition of war – because humanitarianism is, by definition, non-political. It aims for goals on which “the international community” can agree, and...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/24/this_is_war_lite_with_no_leadership_or_goals_252594.html

Lindsey Graham Lisa Murkowski Maria Cantwell Mark Begich Mark Pryor

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