Setting the Standard. Kenneth Roth.
by Roth, Kenneth; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 49Human Relations. Publisher: Harvard International Review, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Human Rights Watch (Organization) | Humanitarian intervention | Humanitarian law | Iraq War (2003) | Justification | Threats | United Nations Security CouncilDDC classification: 050 Summary: "This is not a question about whether the war was justified on other grounds....Rather, it is a question about whether humanitarianism alone can justify the invasion. Despite the horrors of Hussein's rule, it cannot." (HARVARD INTERNATIONAL REVIEW) The author, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, argues that "the invasion of Iraq fails the test for a humanitarian intervention," and notes if public reaction "breeds cynicism about the use of military force for humanitarian purposes, it could be devastating for people in need of future rescue."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Setting the Standard, Spring 2004; pp. 58-62.
"This is not a question about whether the war was justified on other grounds....Rather, it is a question about whether humanitarianism alone can justify the invasion. Despite the horrors of Hussein's rule, it cannot." (HARVARD INTERNATIONAL REVIEW) The author, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, argues that "the invasion of Iraq fails the test for a humanitarian intervention," and notes if public reaction "breeds cynicism about the use of military force for humanitarian purposes, it could be devastating for people in need of future rescue."
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