Protect

Susan Powers developed a philosophy called, "responsibility to protect". It states that when a people are being mistreated by their government it is the responsibility of the United States to intervene. She convinced Hillary Clinton and Samantha Powers to join with her to use military force to oust Gaddafi from Libya which later Obama called a grave mistake. Later when Assad in Syria used chemical weapons against his people the responsibility to protect idea came in to play and Rice laid out the case for the damage that would be done to our national security and that of our partners and allies should we fail to respond to enforce the longstanding international norm against the use of chemical weapons. This time Obama didn't take the bait. Before Obama left office he once again fell under the spell of Powers and sent arms to Saudi Arabia to fight against the Houthi insurgents in Yemen and that has now escalated into the troubles in the Red Sea which may lead the US into another war. The responsibility to protect is the ultimate liberal idea of protecting the oppressed from the oppressors. It looks good (virtue signaling) but in practice ends up causing more harm than good. The three countries involved, Libya, Syria and Yemen are still in civil war.