Steven Groves points out Obama has given multiple justifications for the U.S. intervention, it appears more and more that his philosophical basis for ordering the use of force by the United States is based on a doctrine known as the responsibility to protect(R2P). Relying on the R2P doctrine as a justification for the U.S. intervention is a mistake. It is inconsistent with a proper exercise of sovereignty, and any adoption of its principles is likely to constrain U.S. action in future situations.
Groves notes that military intervention by one sovereign nation into another for humanitarian purposes has long been a controversial topic. In the wake of the tragedies in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the Canadian government — at the urging of Kofi Annan — launched an initiative to develop principles for when and under what conditions such an intervention would be justified. Canada in turn formed the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in September 2000 to foster a global political consensu for preventing and responding to future incidents of mass killing and ethnic cleansing.
The philosophy of R2P, as formulated in the final report issued by the ICISS, is fairly straightforward: A national government (in this case, Libya) is responsible for preventing large-scale loss of life and ethnic cleansing within its borders, but if that government is either unwilling or unable to do so (or in this case actively engaged in the killing), the international community, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, has a responsibility to act for the protection of the aggrieved population, with or without the consent of the recalcitrant government.
The R2P doctrine quickly found a large following, attracting advocates who launched a worldwide effort to convince the international community to recognize R2P as a universally accepted doctrine. For example, a coalition of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that includes Human Rights Watch and the World Federalist Movement teamed with George Soros's Open Society Institute and the MacArthur Foundation to launch the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the City University of New York.
R2P generates a lot of kickbacks! The largest kickbacks originate in the military industry. Military procurement is a corrupt business from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few checks and balances. Most people in power love this system of doing business and do not want it changed. War and preparation for war systematically corrupt all parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military products. There is a standard 10% kickback to kleptocrats for military purchases.
R2P participants in the military-industrial-kleptocrat complex(MIKC) are routinely blamed for mismanagement, not infrequently they are accused of waste, fraud, abuse, and kickbacks(WFAK), and from time to time a few of them are indicted for criminal offenses. All of these unsavory actions, however, are typically viewed as aberrations, misfeasances to be rectified or malfeasances to be punished while retaining the basic system of state-private cooperation in the production of military goods and services. These offenses are in reality expressions of a thoroughgoing, intrinsic rottenness in the entire setup.
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