Thursday, March 31, 2011
R2P: Libya Intervention a Historic Milestone
Francesco Femia, Wash NoteWhen explaining his decision to authorize a military intervention in Libya (which he actually did well before Monday's speech), President Obama stated: "We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy." There was history in that statement. It was the latest affirmation of a human rights movement that grew out of an unexpectedly violent decade.Following the brutal massacres committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s, the world asked itself -- at what point is it our responsibility to stop the slaughter of innocent people?
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