The Thin Red Line (excellent article in New Yorker on Syria)

[shaayecanaan]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/13/130513fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all

In an interview this year with The New Republic, he suggested that intervening in Syria would oblige the United States to intervene anywhere there was a humanitarian catastrophe. “How do I weigh tens of thousands who’ve been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?’’ he said. “You hope that, at the end of your presidency, you can look back and say, I made more right calls than not and that I saved lives where I could.”

[bemildred]

1. Maybe the way we go about intervening in these things could use some examination?

Perhaps the military is not the best instrument? Or greedy capitalists?