http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/03/23/blatant-hypocricy-responsibility-protect/As we continue to dissect our shiny new war in Libya and work to understand its genesis, two items continue to swirl around the debate. These are the reliance of Obama’s supporters on the circumstances of the United Nations supporting military intervention and the growing support at the White House for what has come to be known as the “Responsibility to Protect doctrine,” or R2P for short.
Second is the matter of this R2P doctrine, which has been bubbling around the UN for more than half a decade. It’s quite popular with liberal activists and has been gaining steam among some members of the Obama administration, particularly Samantha Powers and Susan Rice.
Incorporated in UN Security Council Resolution 1674 (passed in 2006) the doctrine seeks to make the assertion that “sovereignty is not an unconditional inherent right of a regime but a privilege granted by recognition of the international community that has limits to nonintervention. Those limits are crossed when a regime engages in ‘genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity’.”
It’s a lovely idea if you happen to think that one group of people can somehow “fix” the entire world, but before any US leaders attempt to wrap themselves in this particular flag we should be quick to point out and call them on some uncomfortable bits of reality. Chief among those is a demonstrated track record of inconsistency and hypocrisy when applying such noble rules to our actions. Mind you, this is not an “Obama problem” or a “Bush problem.” It is not unique to the Republicans or the Democrats, liberal or conservatives. It’s endemic in our political culture.
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