How Humanitarian Interventionists Are Distracting Attention from the Mideast and America’s Needs
Libya isn’t a moral or strategic domino, as the interventionists would have us believe. Leslie H. Gelb on why we need to pay more attention to the Mideast—and America.
Humanitarian interventionists without a cause: that’s what they were until they found the fires of hell in Libya. Iraq, the old humanitarian banner, was worn out, Afghanistan never quite caught on, and somehow today’s humanitarians never flew into rages over the moral horrors in the Sudan and Ivory Coast.
