"Immaculate Intervention"

George Friedman offers a perspective of OOD as a casual war fraught with good intentions. The new doctrine of humanitarian intervention - "go in light, go in soft and stay there long" - still leaves open the question of what happens in the aftermath.

I call humanitarian wars immaculate intervention, because most advocates want to see the outcome limited to preventing war crimes, not extended to include regime change or the imposition of alien values. They want a war of immaculate intentions surgically limited to a singular end without other consequences. And this is where the doctrine of humanitarian war unravels.

Read more: "Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism," republished with permission of STRATFOR.

(Thanks to Capt Ashley Anderson for forwarding)