tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post3975453691411078253..comments2023-11-17T03:55:40.736-05:00Comments on Ink Spots: NYT Op-Eds on intervention: The good, the bad, and the uglyLilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-65106758020940414832012-07-26T11:10:52.643-04:002012-07-26T11:10:52.643-04:00MK: I've been meaning to apologize for my comm...MK: I've been meaning to apologize for my comments here on R2P. It's clear much of this is an emotional response from me based on ethnic identity and the ethnic orientation of friends, and so on.<br /><br />At any rate, if this is to be a meaningful "doctrine", the "alleged" (and not so alleged) hypocrisies will have to be accounted for or it will go nowhere--or unfortunately be actually harmful.<br /><br />Sorry, I can't promise I won't be emotional about this in the future but I am glad your post attempts calm.<br /><br />- Madhu<br /><br />(And now I see I really will have to give up on my holding out on Twitter. No one on the usual blogs I read anymore comment on anything. It's all gone completely silent, the passing of a technologies moment, like the radio or silent movie stars or something....)<br /><br />- MadhuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-57227346227659857792012-07-24T00:29:18.949-04:002012-07-24T00:29:18.949-04:00I particularly appreciated his emphasis on address...<em>I particularly appreciated his emphasis on addressing the existential fears of Syrian minorities as a key element in any viable plan (whether incorporating military force or not).</em><br /><br />I know a lot of people in this "camp" so it may be affecting my feelings about an intervention....that and the fact that intervening in a civil war doesn't seem to be as simple as writing an op-ed. I don't mean that as snark, I just didn't know quite how to word things.<br /><br />I guess what I want to know about R2P is how one decides which actions to back militarily and why some regimes seem to get a pass from the very proponents of the law? It all seems so haphazard, and there is absolutely disillusion from populations that are suffering but are not part of the correct "matrix of understanding."<br /><br />I think at this point we probably are involved and should be involved a bit given the chemical weapons and the threat to the population. But I admit, I can't forgive the great harm done on the subcontinent by some of the same peope championing R2P.Madhuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198241208223203425noreply@blogger.com