More Words From Matt

[Kay] Today Campus Progress has an interview up with Matt about Heads in the Sand. Here's a brief highlight where Matt talks about humanitarian militarism and why it's, well, overrated:

We need to stop making foolish proclamations like, “Well, if we invaded this country, we can solve all its problems.” The truth of the matter is that it’s really hard to solve problems by invading other countries. There’s a certain mindset—a kind of false machismo that comes around where some people get interested in humanitarianism and in helping foreigners only when killing some other foreigners is the method at hand. There’s a desire to cherry-pick situations where allegedly sending in the Marines and dropping bombs will help people, which I think reflects an attitude of militarism more than it reflects a concern with humanitarianism or human rights.

As they say, read the whole thing.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/more-words-from-matt/45131/