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• Title: Humanitarian Imperialism: Response to "Ending Tyranny in Iraq".
• Author : Ethics & International Affairs
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 250 KB

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Fernando Teson offers two "humanitarian rationales" for the war in Iraq. The first, which he calls the "narrow" rationale, is that the war was fought to overthrow a tyrant. The second, "grand" rationale is that it was fought as part of a strategy for defending the United States by establishing democratic regimes in the Middle East and throughout the world--peacefully, if possible, but by force if necessary. (1) Both rationales strain the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention. The first is narrow only in relation to the second, for it broadens the traditional understanding, which it also in effect rewrites. The second treats establishing democracy in other countries as a means to defending the security of the United States. A war fought primarily for our own sake and only incidentally for the sake of the people of Iraq has even less claim to be justified as a humanitarian intervention. THE NARROW RATIONALE

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