March 20, 2011
IF IT MAKES THE LEFT HAPPY...:
The Strikes on Libya: Humanitarian Intervention, Not Imperial Aggression (Daniel Serwer , 3/19/11, The Atlantic)
A coalition of the willing attacks an Arab country; French warplanes strike armored vehicles; American cruise missiles take down air defenses. It all sounds to some too much like Iraq redux. But it's not. The proper analogy is Srebrenica. This is the international community acting under international law to prevent mass murder.
...we can pretend there's a difference where there is none. But you can't help but sound vapid when you try to favorably contrast action against a regime that's shot a few hundred with action against a regime that killed hundreds of thousands and against whom the supposedly humane sanctions were killing hundreds of thousands more (or so the Left assured us before the war).
Posted by oj at March 20, 2011 9:25 AM
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