by zen | Feb 7, 2014 | Monitor
I thought I would call the attention of the readership to a debate that has been ricocheting around different social media platforms on R2P ( “Responsibility to Protect“). I have dealt with the topic several times in the past, related to the ideas of...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] At The Bridge, Victor Allen pontificates on R2P (“Responsibility to Protect“) as if it were an established, cardinal point of international law and not a pet theory of a few years vintage pushed by a small but...
by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...
by zen | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Anne-Marie Slaughter had a short but bombastic WaPo op-ed on Syria and chemical weapons use that requires comment: Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria ….The Clinton administration did not want to acknowledge that genocide was taking place...
by zen | Jan 30, 2013 | Monitor
The Obama administration, though they would not characterize it as such nor have much desire to acknowledge it at all, have attempted a strategic detente with the “moderate” elements of political Islam. This policy has not been entirely consistent; Syria,...
