On the UN approval of a no-fly zone in Libya: A vote for humanity

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The Monitor's View

On the UN approval of a no-fly zone in Libya: A vote for humanity


The United Nations Security Council's vote for military intervention in Libya will add to the world's lessons in knowing when and how to act in a nation's crisis.


By the Monitor's Editorial Board / March 18, 2011


Humanity should be proud of its humanity. On Thursday, the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize the use of outside force in Libya, a move designed to prevent a massacre of pro-democracy rebels and civilians in the city of Benghazi.

No matter what happens in Libya over coming days, the international community has now ventured further down a long learning curve. The UN, in passing Resolution 1973 on March 17, has better defined when the world will meddle in a sovereign nation to prevent mass deaths.

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The big point with Libya is that humanity is on an upward path to act across borders to prevent mass slaughter. The 20th century was littered with examples of what happens without such action: the Holocaust, the mass famines in Mao’s China and Stalin’s Soviet Union, and the millions killed in Africa’s wars.

Step by step, the world’s people have shown a conscience to see the welfare of others as their own, and then mustered the political will to act. Knowing when or how to intervene isn’t easy. But nonetheless progress is being made toward higher ideals of humanity. The outcome in Libya is still unknown. But for the international community so far, the initial steps are in the right direction.


http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2011/0318/On-the-UN-approval-of-a-no-fly-zone-in-Libya-A-vote-for-humanity

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Now, if they would only pass No Fly Zones over Afghanistan and Pakistan.

For humanity.