tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post632809427389640602..comments2023-12-23T02:10:09.875-05:00Comments on howl at pluto: Walzer, Mill, Libya, and the value of state boundariesLFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-44598057614401827252011-09-25T17:15:27.246-04:002011-09-25T17:15:27.246-04:00LOL
It’s behind a pay wall.
I have always said ...LOL<br /><br /><br />It’s behind a pay wall.<br /><br />I have always said Marxists sometimes have good critiques, it’s just the solution is worse than the orgianal problem.<br /><br /><br />But then <a href="http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings</a> is my blog.hank_F_Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851295792702162861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-31143060378955180982011-09-25T00:41:32.229-04:002011-09-25T00:41:32.229-04:00...a de facto re-establishment of imperialism
Why...<i>...a de facto re-establishment of imperialism</i><br /><br />Why Hank, you're sounding like ... gasp ... a Marxist. Look at Kees van der Pijl's article in the current issue of <i>New Left Review</i>. I've only skimmed it quickly but I think you might find it interesting.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132520298120231193.post-3525476810888739372011-09-24T22:04:56.120-04:002011-09-24T22:04:56.120-04:00Yes it is an interesting debate.
I have the feeli...Yes it is an interesting debate.<br /><br />I have the feeling it will turn out to be a case of hard cases (Rawanda, Dafur) making bad law. Wanting to do something to stop genocides is admirable, but it seems that R2P provides a door for worse problems. I’m sure there are better solutions in the middle. I’m not really sure what the are. While it is not expressed in the norm R2P means nothing unless it is also a responsibility defend against unjust and improper interventions. My humanitarian intervention is your imperialist aggression. This needs much more thinking out than it received before the norm was extablished. I would think this is a justification for non-intervention except in the most extreme incidents.<br /><br />In 50’s and 60’s many third world countries strived for independence which included several rather serious wars. Isn’t the defining down of sovereignty a <i>de facto</i> reestablishment of imperialism? New names, same old stuff. The recent operations in Libya reads like an operational history of a nineteenth century/early 20th century exercise in gun boat diplomacy or imperial policing. Even changing the name I don’t want to go back there.<br /><br /><a href="http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/2011/02/never-again-and-again-and-again.html" rel="nofollow">Never Again and Again and Again</a> some relevant commets made before Libya.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings</a>hank_F_Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851295792702162861noreply@blogger.com