rodney rotorslap:
So you think it's wrong to fight those who would happily shoot a little girl in the head simply because she wants to go to school?
yes i do. we seem to be quite happy to support torture, genocide and the murder of children when it suits us. My recollection is also that we quite liked the taliban governing afghanistan after they had defeated the russians and destroyed the opium fields. our esteemed colleagues in the USA have allegedly developed the habit of shooting black americans for no good reason. should we fight them too?
to put that another way, your "responsibility to protect" (R2P) argument fails because it is hypocritically and selectively applied by us.