Ms. Power and Ms. Rice and their contemporaries would have us believe that the U.S. military is the only salvation capable of saving beleaguered populations from evil. Even when information is not exact, Ms. Power believes the president should adopt a “bias towards belief” that massacres are imminent, justifying preemptive war. For Uganda, Ms. Power portrayed Kony as evil when the Ugandan military also committed atrocities the U.S. government helped enable. This is a great irony considering Ms. Davis and her State Department and probably CIA backers were ostensibly motivated by humanitarian concerns. Of added importance is the party’s wrong-headed embrace of the “humanitarian intervention” and R2P doctrines, which serve little more than the vested interests of the military-industrial complex.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2017 23:26 UTC