Will the West stand by and watch the slaughter of Yazidis, and cleansing of Christians, in Iraq?
Remember the R2P Doctrine? The Obama administration, led by Samantha Power, justified Western intervention in Libya against Moammar Qaddafi in 2011 because of the global "responsibility to protect" civilians threatened by Qaddafi's forces in Benghazi. As J. E. Dyer wrote in 2011, "by the R2P formulation, endangered civilian populations...trump sovereignty. … According to this text, it is indeed possible to bomb another country for three months without being in "hostilities." We deliberately decapitated the Qaddafi regime and turned Libya into the Somalia of the Mediterranean based on the supposed threat to civilians in eastern Libya, which in retrospect looks more like a threat to the same terrorist networks that now operate with impunity there.
What about where a terrorist state actually threatens genocide and ethnic cleansing? Where is R2P when you need it? Jacob Siegel asks that question in The Daily Beast about the shameful inaction of the West as tens of thousands of Yazidis starve and thirst to death while waiting for a rescue...Also read:
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