Washington celebrated the success of the intervention — not for Libya’s sake, but for the sake of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention has often been used as a pretext for regime change. The critics worry that humanitarian intervention of the Western variety ignores causes and produces terrible outcomes. Humanitarian intervention now seemed illegitimate — it burned in the fires of Baghdad. The U.S. war broke Iraq’s infrastructure and state institutions as well as dented the pretensions of humanitarian intervention.

Source: The Hindu May 30, 2016 18:56 UTC