https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/03/28/mickey-kaus-barack-obama-and-humanitarian-imperialism/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:08:28 -0400<![CDATA[&#8220;Humanitarian imperialism&#8221; is the phrase Mickey&#8217;s come up with to describe Whatever The Heck It Is We&#8217;re Doing These Days In Eurasia, and it&#8217;s a good one.  It&#8217;s also one that implies a constant, low-level state of war that goes a good deal beyond the one that we&#8217;re in now; and I should make a distinction here between the Bush and the (unstated) Obama Doctrines.  The Bush Doctrine assumed that, under the right conditions, a long-term war could be over: &#8220;as they stand up we will stand down,&#8221; and all that.  The Obama Doctrine &#8211; as described by Mickey &#8211; assumes that war will be what he called &#8216;routinized&#8217; &#8211; and accepted, as part of the cost of doing what is pretty explicitly Imperial business.  And by Imperial Mickey explicitly means something very, very Victorian, which is ironic on a variety of levels.]]>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:00:48 -0400<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/03/28/mickey-kaus-barack-obama-and-humanitarian-imperialism-n38444