Popular Humanitarian invasions?

[Tmy]

The Iraq conflict has kinda morphed into an humanitatrian invasion. We're going in to save the people. Have these types of actions ever been poplular wh the public. Im tryingto recall Kosovo and Etheopia. Waht was the public perception back then?

[Richard G]

Heres how the hypocrytical peace nics felt...
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/23/151110

[corplinx]

I thought the Somalia effort was the most noble use of military force I had seen. Unfortunately, a switch in presidents led to a bad fate for the project. However, when it came time to lead a humanitarian invasion in a european country that same president was all over it. Makes you wonder......

[DialecticMaterialist]

US overthrow of Japan and Nazi Germany.....

As for that link you gave Richard, though I don't doubt a celebrity is dumb enough to say what Janeane said, it kinda makes a site look dubious when it has a link to:

http://www.newsmax.com/jump/banners/IntUWZemin125x300.htm

On it, about China and Iraq as being in a "secret alliance" behind Al-Queda. LOL.

[corplinx]

Newsmax is a good alternative news source. They do have news you won't find anywhere else. Just remember to take newsmax with a truckload (as opposed to grain) of salt. I remember reading newsmax on the show "That's My Bush!" and them saying the show was trying to make the first lady look like a sex crazed harlot. I mean jeez, this was a totally farcical show with no bearing on reality at all. Its not like the Daily Show or SNL which engage in meme propagation. Newsmax looks for an "agenda" everywhere. They are basically one step up from a John Birch newsletter. Try to balance them with one of the leftist news sources that are one step down from Chomsky.

[hammegk]

Originally posted by corplinx
I thought the Somalia effort was the most noble use of military force I had seen. ...

Err, why? Should we fix every group of mean motor-scooters who have staked out some turf?

If so, why not start in downtown DC? or East LA?

[The Fool]

Originally posted by hammegk


Err, why? Should we fix every group of mean motor-scooters who have staked out some turf?

If so, why not start in downtown DC? or East LA?

Don't remember reading about famine and civil war in downtown DC or East LA?

People "staking out some turf" wasn't the problem, it was the possibility of mass death from famine and disease....

[hammegk]

Originally posted by The Fool


Don't remember reading about famine and civil war in downtown DC or East LA?
Civil unrest and lawlessness is more the problem; thank god for food-stamps.

People "staking out some turf" wasn't the problem, it was the possibility of mass death from famine and disease....
Enough basic aid - a lot from US - gets to the Horn; most of it gets grabbed by the "gangs" (as good, human, capitalists).

[Torlack]

For a while now, the Iraq conflict has had the humanitarian aspect. It isn't exactly new. There seems to be three main justifications for attacking Iraq that keep on popping up at different times depending on the latest administration speech.