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Put the ‘Humanitarian’ Back in Humanitarian Interventions


In times past, talk of “humanitarian intervention” brought to mind images of Red Cross trucks and nurses coming to the scene of a natural disaster to tend the afflicted.
Today American leaders use it to mean instead aerial bombing campaigns and proxy wars led by Special Forces to oust dictators or resist insurgents, often with the best of intentions but disastrous results.
In the name of humanitarian goals, Washington has spent not billions but trillions of our dollars on such interventions, without bringing violence or suffering to an end.
Yet the world’s richest country spends precious little money on actual humanitarian aid …read more

Source: The Huffington Post

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