Welcome to the insane liberal foreign policy bizarro fantasy world of responsibility to protect (R2P).
President Obama’s non-war war in Libya makes no sense, blame his nutty security adviser “for multilateral affairs and human rights” — Samantha Power.
It turns out Power was the main White House aide agitating for military force against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. She helped overrule reluctant Pentagon brass by arguing force can be justified on “humanitarian grounds.” She noted that “on a single day, Gadhafi killed 1,200” of his own people.
Well, hey, Samantha, what about the Ivory Coast? What about your “responsibility to protect”? Innocent civilians are being massacred by the hundreds. Why aren’t you protecting them? Why Libya and not Ivory Coast?
Ivory Coast conflict intensifies amid reports of a massacre
Estimates of the dead in the contested town of Duekoue were hard to pin down, with figures ranging from more than 300 to 1,000 people killed. The International Committee of the Red Cross said that more than 800 civilians had been killed in “intercommunal” violence in the town, where tens of thousands of Ivorian civilians have been displaced by fighting between the forces of Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of a November election, and Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to step down.
“We are shocked by the brutality and scale of this act,” said Dominique Liengme, the Red Cross’s representative in Ivory Coast.
See also:
Ivory Coast massacre claims hundreds
Red Cross: 800 killed in Ivory Coast town
Mass graves, ‘1000 dead’ in Ivory Coast
Machete thugs hack to death 1,000 in just one town as Ivory Coast battle rages
More than 1,000 killed in Ivorian town
Massacre on the streets of Ivory Coast
Massacre in Ivory Coast city as strongman Laurent Gbagbo clings to power
Ivory Coast violence: 800 found dead in Duekoue, anti-government protests against Gbagbo intensify
Ivory Coast massacre kills 1,000: agency
Slaughter in Ivory Coast as the Grisly Political Standoff Intensifies
UN investigates massacre
Massacre Uncovered In Western Ivory Coast
Impasse On The Ivory Coast
C’mon Samantha, why aren’t you badgering your boss Obama to intervene in this conflict? What’s happening in Ivory Coast is much worse than anything that’s happened in Libya so far. Is “responsibility to protect” a consistent doctrine or just a trendy catch phrase you throw around at Washington cocktail parties to impress your liberal elite friends? What part of massacre don’t you understand?
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