human rights?

[WillMagic]

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..and I was wondering what people think we should be doing worldwide in regards to humanitarian intervention.

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Let's make sure we get our terms right. I don't think the government should do anything in regard to humanitarian intervention, but i think that there is plenty that private citizens and organizations could and should do.


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As much as I like to think that we have the responsibility to intervene into horrific and unimaginable human rights abuses...how can anyone possibly intervene successfully?

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It's hard, and governments sure do suck at it. I had a fun idea with Darfur that I think is pretty cross-applicable to other areas - set up a charity to bring buses/DC-10's into wartorn areas and evacuate anyone who wants to leave.

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I hear it all the time, that someone should stop it? Who pays the bill to arm, equip, feed, etc. the intervening force? Also...how do you really win a fight like this? LIt is not a peacekeeping mission, it is certainly an invasion. Then you have to deal with the internal politics of racial hatred. We cannot forget the debacle in Somalia and Iraq where the goal is to stop the atrocity. So I think that we should not be intervening (unilaterallly) at all. If we are to be the "world police" as we are apt to believe, we should be acting mulitlatterally with the cooperation and will of other nations.

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I think multilateralism is overrated. I don't see too much difference between our government doing something stupid and counterproductive on its own or stupid and counterproductive in concert with other nations. All the other points you bring up are very solid - interventionism sucks.

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But again how can you quell the racial hatred amongst peoples that have been at war for centuries? you cant walk in and hand them a ballot box and say everything will be alright.

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True that.