No-fly Zone - Clouding Words of War

  • Opinion by Tarak Barkawi* - IPS/Al Jazeera (cambridge, england)
  • Inter Press Service

Phantasms from the 1990s are upon us: no-fly zones; the rhetoric of humanitarian war in Washington, Europe and the U.N.; guarantees that no U.S. ground troops will be deployed; an air war which alone cannot decisively affect earthbound events.

President Barack Obama swung for ringing tones in his statement on Libya, condemning idleness in the face of merciless tyrants who brutally assault innocents.

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