THE SPLIT BEING....:

An Open Letter to the Left on Libya (Juan Cole, 03/27/2011, Informed Consent)

I am unabashedly cheering the liberation movement on, and glad that the UNSC-authorized intervention has saved them from being crushed. I can still remember when I was a teenager how disappointed I was that Soviet tanks were allowed to put down the Prague Spring and extirpate socialism with a human face. Our multilateral world has more spaces in it for successful change and defiance of totalitarianism than did the old bipolar world of the Cold War, where the US and the USSR often deferred to each other’s sphere of influence.

The United Nations-authorized intervention in Libya has pitched ethical issues of the highest importance, and has split progressives in unfortunate ways.

...between those who oppose liberating others on principle and those who only oppose it when a Republican is president.

Posted by oj at March 28, 2011 6:03 AM
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