A debate is under way at the United Nations over a policy that may seem uncontroversial: an international framework to prevent severe crimes against humanity. The framework is called "responsibility to protect," or R2P, in U.N. parlance. A restricted version of R2P, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Since war profiteering is currently America’s strongest industry, its influence is enormous. I guess we’ll have to slay that dragon before we can finance and actuate more effective humanitarian intervention.
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