Critical Documents: Intervention

Did Qaddafi’s End Justify the Means? Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy Two contradictory global objectives have the potential to encourage nuclear proliferation. The international “Responsibility to Protect” threatens regimes committing crimes against humanity against their citizens. Simultaneously, a campaign against weapons of mass destruction threatens the strength of these states. Libya provides motivation for regimes to […]

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Anne Marie Slaughter Transcript

What are the major schools of thought as to how we should or shouldn’t work with NATO in the coming years? The question about NATO is an interesting one because NATO as an organization is going through a pretty profound transition after the end of the Cold War and then after 9/11. I really see […]

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General James Jones Transcript

General James Jones   The intervention in Libya has widely been considered a success.  What made it work? I think it’s very difficult- people want a blueprint, a template if you will that you can apply to most incidents, but unfortunately that’s not possible. The correct thing to do is diagnose what are the main […]

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Anne Marie Slaughter Transcript

Anne Marie Slaughter So what are the major schools of thought as to how we should or shouldn’t work with NATO in the coming years? The question about NATO is an interesting one because NATO as an organization is going through a pretty profound transition after the end of the Cold War and then after […]

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Admiral James Stavaridis Transcript

Libya has been called a “model intervention.”  Could you tell us more about the mission and what made it such? I think first and foremost it showed us that NATO can work and work fast.  We had a UN Security Council resolution, the alliance – 28 nations, as well as Arab partners and European partners […]

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The Facts: Intervention

The U.S. has authorized $557 billion to fund the war in Afghanistan — enough for every man, woman and child in Chicago to buy 20 iPads, 30 Kindle Fires, Bulls season tickets, a campaign fundraiser photo with Michelle Obama and dinner at Alinea every night for a year. Chicago Tribune <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-22/news/ct-perspec-0422-things-20120422_1_afghan-war-western-troops-mullah-mohammad-omar> U.S. annual air-conditioning cost […]

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