Politics Sep 6, 2013 at 9:44 am

"There has never been a successful humanitarian intervention."

Eli Sanders
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Even the intervention on the Nazis led to the creation of Israel. Don't know if I would call that 100% success.
Aestro on September 6, 2013 at 9:53 AM Report this
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1) France intervening in Mali last year. Done.

2) N+1 needs to continue writing exclusively about "hipsters" because they know nothing about everything else. Isaac Chotiner deftly explains why they're wrong: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114571/…
Čẖüñđƴ on September 6, 2013 at 10:56 AM Report this
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^^Good article, thanks
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Berlin Airlift.
frankieb on September 7, 2013 at 8:46 AM Report this

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