Interventionism | Moral Considerations Should Outweigh Political Arguments on Intervention

“Our silence enables this madness to continue,” wrote American lawyer Betsy Midden in the International Herald Tribune on January 13, 1993, after visiting Bosnian victims of Serbian violence, deploring that so few people had been willing to speak out against the slaughter. Why has the international community, especially Western democracies, allowed the systematic torture, rape, and murder of Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina?

Why Not Bosnia?
If there was a case for intervening with force to “liberate” Kuwait, why was there no case for liberating Bosnia? If...

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