Responsibility to protect

When Susan Rice and Samantha Powers became a part of the Obama administration they proposed a concept called, “Responsibility to Protect”, which said that if the lives of innocent people are threatened the United States should take steps to protect them. This was the policy that the President followed when he ordered American Air power to intervene in Libya. When the same thing happened in Syria the administration said it was a different situation although many now say that if American air power had been used early on it could have turned the tables on Assad. Now after 160,000 have died and millions have been forced into refugee camps the same thing is happening in Iraq. The President will once again be asked to intervene to save innocent people with the use of air power.