9/23/2023 0 Comments Cruel temptation sub indoLiberal interventionist had become the proud badge of a generation discovering the good war. Western intervention in a cruel war in Sierra Leone led to the end of that conflict. Soon after, Slobodan Milosevic’s murderous dominion ended. The alliance bombed again in Kosovo in 1999. NATO finally bombed Serbian positions in 1995. Sickened by carnage, and by the lies and ignorance of Western politicians who prolonged the carnage, I understood that caution - or more accurately hypocrisy masquerading as prudence - can be as criminal as recklessness. Like many of my generation, I became an interventionist in Bosnia. Now Libya, a successful Western intervention, will be placed on the scales. From Roger Cohen, the New York Times: It will be two decades next year since the outbreak of the Bosnian war - and since the debate on interventionism began to rage, becoming one of the most acrimonious moral questions of our times.
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