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ed “there are not enough safeguards in the wording of the [no-fly] resolution to bar its use for imperialist purposes,” adding that he favored the imperialist action as a measure for the “protection of civilians and not ‘regime change.’” This is an example of leftist anti-anti-imperialism; i.e., supporting imperialism but with caveats.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Achcar wished for a democratic people’s uprising in Libya rather than Western imposed regime-change. So, while he echoed the main imperialist talking points about the “brutal dictator” and his “regime,” he hoped for a nice imperialism that would achieve regime change by “democratic” means. He admits to no responsibility for his propagandizing, which, whether it was his intention or not, foreshadowed the ensuing disaster.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class="">Behind Achcar’s leftish rhetoric is a flawed belief that somehow the imperialist actions of the U.S. and its allies may be truly humanitarian. In short, the U.S. purportedly has a “responsibility to protect” (R2P). Achcar championed R2P in the former Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria, where his article lauds how the U.S. bombing “rescued” people on the ground, even though in every instance the outcomes were neither democratic nor humanitarian.</p><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""><font face="arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><strong class=""><a href="https://mintpressnews.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3b33b8b02bdc833e727219156&id=49496aa32b&e=9c85e5de6e" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(208, 142, 19); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" class="">Read the full analysis</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on MintPress News. </strong></span></font></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">In solidarity,<br class=""><strong class="">Roger D. Harris</strong></span></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mintpressnews.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3b33b8b02bdc833e727219156&id=cca99265f8&e=9c85e5de6e" title="" class="" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img align="center" alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/3b33b8b02bdc833e727219156/images/eda3f0a7-0296-42ca-9395-7371dee4fd0a.png" width="564" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 800px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline !important;"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><span class=""></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateFooter" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="footerContainer" style="padding-bottom: 9px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnFollowBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnFollowBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class="mcnFollowBlockInner" style="padding: 9px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnFollowContentContainer" style="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