Nicholas Kristoff gets it exactly right on Syria. --- “When has violence, killing and aggression helped anything?” demanded Jan, on Facebook. The answer is: Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Bosnia and Kosovo. In each of those countries, an outside military force intervened at minimal cost and saved large numbers of lives. In several (as Clausewitz would have predicted), war buttressed diplomacy and helped achieve peace agreements. We think of warfare in binary terms, as if our options are invasions or nothing at all, but that’s misleading. All-out wars have a poor record, but modest interventions of the kind President Obama is talking about in Syria have a more successful (though still mixed) history." ---
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:38:21 +0000
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