[Peace-discuss] Humanitarian imperialism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Clinton's attack on Serbia is the model for "humanitarian intervention," and it 
was a lie from the beginning.  78 days of NATO bombing in 1999 did not prevent 
Serbian reprisals but caused them. Even Clinton administration officials now 
admit t that it was Yugoslavia’s resistance to the broader trends of political 
and economic reform - not the plight of Kosovar Albanians - that best explains 
NATO’s war. The real reason for the bombing was that Yugoslavia was a lone 
holdout in Europe to the political and economic programs of the Clinton 
administration and its allies.


On 3/6/11 3:33 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [If you're US foreign policy planners named "Power" and "Slaughter," you may 
> be disposed from that reason alone to recommend killing - "from the best 
> possible motives." Or maybe it's simply female sympathy for (some) victims - 
> that happens to serve US imperial interests...]
>
>> From <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/weekinreview/06protect.html?_r=1&hp>:
>
> ...Mr. Obama has told his staff to study previous uprisings in Eastern Europe, 
> the Middle East and Southeast Asia for lessons about how they unfolded and 
> what role the United States played. He won’t lack for impassioned advice: 
> Among his staff members is Samantha Power, a human-rights expert who won a 
> Pulitzer Prize for a book chronicling American foreign-policy responses to 
> genocide.
>
> Former officials are also taking up the call. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who 
> recently resigned as the State Department’s director of policy planning, said 
> in a tweet: “The international community cannot stand by and watch the 
> massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.”
>
> Ms. Slaughter, a former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and 
> International Affairs at Princeton, said winning support for a no-flight zone 
> in the United Nations Security Council would be tricky, given Russian and 
> Chinese resistance. Instead, she favors a request by a provisional government 
> in Libya, endorsed by the African Union and the Arab League.
>
> The trouble is figuring out who might make up such a government...
>
>
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