The Obama Doctrine: Humanitarian Intervention Anywhere We Can Get to Conveniently, Against Anyone We Can Attack with No Risk

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 29th at 11:00 AM  | 

Dan Nexon has pretty effectively summed up the “Obama Doctrine” as the “Humanitarian-intervention-against-militarily-weak-fossil-fuel-producing-countries-in-strategically-important-regions-that-are-also-located-near-many-large-NATO-military-bases-and-are-run-by-dictators-who-kind-of-piss-us-off-and-have-no-powerful-allies Doctrine.” That seems to sum it up pretty well. The only thing I’d add is that it also includes both parts of Obama’s key campaign refrains, Hope and Change.  As in, we’re going to hope that change comes to Libya in the form of a new, non-Qaddafi government; we’re going to hope | Read More »

Mickey Kaus, Barack Obama, and ‘Humanitarian Imperialism.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 28th at 11:00 AM  | 

“Humanitarian imperialism” is the phrase Mickey’s come up with to describe Whatever The Heck It Is We’re Doing These Days In Eurasia, and it’s a good one.  It’s also one that implies a constant, low-level state of war that goes a good deal beyond the one that we’re in now; and I should make a distinction here between the Bush and the (unstated) Obama Doctrines.  | Read More »