Does U.S. intervention in Libya set a precedent for better or worse for a new breed of use of force?
Juan Cole Challenges the Left “to Chew Gum and Walk at the Same Time”
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Libya Intervention Making a Mockery of Political Correctness
Energy concerns may underlie U.S. involvement in the intervention in Libya, to the exclusion of Bahrain and Yemen.
Attack on Libya May Unleash a Long War
The United States and its allies launched the war against Libya on the eighth anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. President Barack Obama says the U.S. will transfer command authority very soon, that military action should be over in “days, not weeks,” and that he wants no boots on the ground. But the parallels with other U.S. wars in the Middle East don’t bode well.
Ed Schultz’s Transformation from Progressive Firebrand to Cruise-Missile Liberal
The Iraq War was approved by both congressional houses, but there’s been neither a vote nor even a debate on Libya.
Libya: “R2P” and Humanitarian Intervention Are Concepts Ripe for Exploitation
Even if one can justify the war on Libya on humanitarian grounds, this is probably not why it’s actually being fought.
Is the Libya Intervention Directed at China?
The Chinese know why the U.S. is bombing Libya but not challenging Bahrain and Yemen: Bahrain hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Yemen’s port of Aden provides access to the Red Sea.
Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Those Who Oppose Supporting the Libyan Rebels
While it is deplorable that policymakers apply their moral outrage selectively, in accordance with perceived national interests, that does not mean we should abandon the moral impulse altogether for the sake of consistency.
Didn’t Take Long for Libyan Rebels to Hollow the “Humanitarian” Out of “Intervention,” Did It?
Libyan rebels seem to be allowing their prejudices to dictate who they’re arresting as Gaddafi loyalists.
Gaddafi’s Genocidal Buzzwords No Doubt Sent up Red Flag to Samantha Power
Gaddafi may not be in a position to incite genocide, but he can approximate it with massacres.
Migrant Workers in Libya
The camera pans out on a dense sea of people pushing and shoving against one another, trying to work their way through the noisy crowd on the border between Libya and Tunisia. One lone voice narrates above the clamor: “The scene at the Libyan border is getting ugly,” he tells us and goes on to explain that these are migrant workers from Egypt who are attempting to flee the violence in Libya. “Expect more scenes like this in the days and weeks to come,” he declares in a somber tone, before the frame shifts to another dense sea of people, lying under blankets as the sand swirls about in the background.