The Fog of Intervention
▻https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-review
A propos de Samantha Power, en faveur du (très sélectif) « #R2P »,
... for Power, protecting human rights means disciplining nations of the Global South that are not U.S. allies. Throughout The Education of an Idealist, she barely mentions Israel or Saudi Arabia—she says nothing about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or the Saudi war on women and LGBTQI+ people. These silences are deafening, because the type of world Power wants to build will never be realized if only certain countries—namely, those that stand outside America’s imperial sphere—are held to account. Her approach does not make much sense from a pragmatic perspective either: U.S. officials have the highest likelihood of ending human rights abuses in countries that depend on us; there is little point in spending political capital in a mostly quixotic attempt to transform antagonists like North Korea.
Meanwhile, Power completely ignores the human rights violations that took place in her own country under Obama’s watch; like many liberal interventionists, she is far more vexed by suffering abroad. [...]
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By focusing on the question “Do we save innocent lives?” liberal interventionists like Power shift our attention from an equally important query: “How do we change conditions so lives don’t need to be saved?” A world oriented around this last question would look very different from the one we have now.