Responsibility to Protect

One member of the news panel tonight was bemoaning the disaster unfolding in Libya and said how much better it was when Moamar Gadhafi was in charge and wondered why we removed him. It was only four years ago when Samatha Powers and Susan Rice proposed the “Responsibility To Protect” Doctrine. This meant that The United States had to intervene when there was imminent danger to civilian populations. It was said that Gadhafi was going to murder thousands of his own people and the US had to get rid of him to protect the innocent. That is why we got rid of him. How could this person not know that? The strange part is when the same danger to innocents happened in Syria these same people sat silently by and are still sitting idly by. It is no wonder that people do not know what our foreign policy is!