Alan Kuperman on The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention & Libya Conflict As Gaddafi's Family Slain

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"How is hitting a residential compound and killing the children of the leader of Libya protecting civilians? It also undermines international norms. You do not go after the children of leaders and grandchildren of leaders," says Alan Kuperman, a University of Texas professor and author of "The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention, in an interview on Democracy Now! May 3." "I think this is a violation of norms and counterproductive for the goal of protecting noncombatants."

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• saif al-arab
• humanitarian intervention

[mynameis677]

China's oil contracts - that's why.

[youngbuck189]

Humanitarian intervention is an oxymoron. Grow up people.