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MICKEY KAUS: Libyan War = World Government? Not that there?s anything wrong with it. ?It?s one?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: Libyan War = World Government? Not that there?s anything wrong with it. “It?s one thing for a supra-national authority?the U.N.?to authorize a war against someone who has committed cross-border aggression, or who has repeatedly violated earlier U.N. resolutions left over from a previous war. That was the case with Saddam in 2002?in theory. It?s another to let the U.N. authorize a war on what Obama calls ‘humanitarian grounds’?whether it?s to stop actual killings or some less severe variety of ‘human rights violation.’ These are concepts that are easily watered down to justify intervention.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 23, 2011 (boomark / email).