R2P and Libya: interesting article

Article written by a former High Commissioner of Canada on the issues of R2P. Very insightful and objective read which also criticizes Canada's foreign policies as having strayed from its former.

R2P is frightening. It's simply a rehash of the same sentiments that motivated the participants of the Thirty Years' War, which killed almost 1/3rd the population of the Holy Roman Empire (and which Germans and Austrians rated as the most destructive event to happen to their country even after losing World War Two).

t_co said:

R2P is frightening. It's simply a rehash of the same sentiments that motivated the participants of the Thirty Years' War, which killed almost 1/3rd the population of the Holy Roman Empire (and which Germans and Austrians rated as the most destructive event to happen to their country even after losing World War Two).

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I see both sides of the coin. R2P emerged as a result of the international community's failures to prevent certain major human security crisis from occurring, in the recent decades. Rwanda, Bosnia, are all examples of atrocities that were conducted under the watches of the UN and the modern international community, who had vowed before to never allow Holocaust-style atrocities to ever happen again. With that said, the concept of R2P was introduced in 2005 at the World Summit, and had been embraced by some, such as Dallaire. As Dallaire had witnessed Rwanda himself, he was perhaps the most powerful vocal for R2P today. Of course while one does not need to question Dallaire, he does represent the Head of the coin, but on the other face are all the issues we saw which had occurred in Libya.
On the other hand, the High Commissioner himself also made a critical point on the dangers of the greyness of the campaign. So it's quite a question that we can ask, that if perhaps R2P can be revised further, would that make the campaign more "exploit-proof"