Note: the following, in italics, is a comment I placed on an article by the UK politician Tom Brake. However, I will subsequently elaborate slightly upon my views.
The history of humanitarian interventionism is a history of self-interest, dishonesty and badly cloaked partisanship. Daesh would not even exist if it were not for such corrupt and self-serving ideologies.
The chain of disastrous and self-serving interventions has to be cut off, and sooner rather than later. Humanitarian interventionism is a tool of the mighty to oppress the weak; it can bring nothing but disaster, except to the powerful, who know well how to benefit from it.
The White Man's Burden belongs back in the 19th century with anti-'sodomy' laws, blasphemy laws and the right of men to treat women as their own property. It is a barbarous relic of our neanderthal ancestors; and everyone in this world, save a privileged few, would be immensely better off without it.
The Washington government want us to participate in their headlong plunge into this white-supremacist imperialist morass; let's be smart, and have the attitude of Harold Wilson, not Tony Blair and Anthony Eden.
To this I add: the fallacy of good intentions can justify anything. Warmongering in the name of purported 'good intentions' is no less destructive than warmongering with avowedly cynical intentions. And of course, there is another disturbing question: How sincere are these pure as the driven snow 'good intentions,' really, after all?
