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...School visiting professor Philip Alston, chair of a United Nations human rights committee, called the Human Rights Watch overly legalistic...
Before turning to intervention, "we have to ensure that other possibilities are exhausted," Alston said. "The current mania of interventions doesn't do that...
...Alston said each of the three instances of intervention could be presented in a "very cynical light" to which he was partly sympathetic...
Incidents in Iraq can be seen as purely Western interest at work, with the no fly zone only established because of Western embarrassment over the handling of the Kurdish plight, Alston said...
Similarly, the Somalian situation can be viewed as President Bush's "valedictory performance," Alston said. And he described Bosnia's crisis as a non-third world event with consequences for all of Europe...