Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Why Libya and Not Darfur, Yemen or Syria?

David Harsanyi, Denver Post
Contrary to pithy bumper-sticker truisms, war is occasionally the answer. But can anyone explain why it's the answer now? At the moment, at least, polls insist that Americans are generally supportive of the United States' intervening in the civil war now raging in Libya, so someone must have an ironclad case.President Barack Obama pins his rationale for intervention on a "humanitarian threat." A noble cause, no doubt. It's too bad that the folks in old Darfur missed out on those laser-guided missiles American and French fighter jets deploy to help avert massacre and...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/23/can_anyone_explain_why_were_in_libya_109323.html

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