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The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. -- Noam Chomsky
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms -- Boris Yeltsin
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. -- Boris Yeltsin
All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other. -- Tariq Ali

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