Reply #2: It is better for Congress to vote on the Libyan intervention - up or down - than to continue [View All]

[pampango]

with the "it's not really a war".

It's a good opportunity to discuss the UN's role in the world and the US' role in the UN. Should the UN pursue its fairly recent (2005) Responsibility to Protect or forget about it? If it continues, how, when, where should it be used? What should the role of the US be if and when the UN authorizes R2P interventions in the future?

Better to discuss these now than to muddle through with a "it's not really a war" which may work now to keep NATO going in Libya but does nothing to educate people and make the next similar "crisis" easier to fit into a realistic view of our role in the UN and the world and how to comply with our own legal requirements in the process.