The Blaze ^ | 4/14/11 | Emily Esfahani Smith
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:17:19 PM by Nachum
Via Weasel Zippers comes a provocative op-ed in the Boston Globe by Alan J. Kuperman, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas and the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention. The op-ed is titled “False pretense for war in Libya?”
Kuperman claims that President Barack Obama “grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat” in Libya in order to justify military action there.
Last month, Obama said that U.S. military involvement in Libya was necessary in order to avoid “blood bath” and “humanitarian catastrophe.”
The president said, “If we waited one more day, Benghazi . . . could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.”
Notwithstanding the harrowing tale of alleged Libyan rape victim Iman al-Obeidi, Kuperman says that new data from Human Rights Watch paints a very different picture of what’s actually happening on the ground in Libya.
Kuperman:
But Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.
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