The Humanitarian Temptation

November 21, 2002 | This article appeared in the December 9, 2002 edition of The Nation.

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In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to
the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is,
indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how s

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