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Talk of war is a long way from traditional peacekeeping. But it is a direct consequence of the open-ended nature of R2P, and it raises troubling questions. Where does the responsibility to protect end? Does it mean fighting a national army? Does it mean supplanting a national government? Does it mean accepting the large losses that would inevitably accompany intervention in Somalia--the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis--or in totalitarian states like Burma? Doss insists there are limits to what he proposes. "We assist the national process. We do not replace it," he says...
Gareth Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister who's now president of the International Crisis Group, has just published a book on R2P. If something proves difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it," he argues. Rather, you "reinforce and update" it. Initially, he says, that would mean sending more soldiers and money. Others wonder whether the U.N. is doing not too little but too much and is in danger of falling into the same trap as NATO in Afghanistan and the U.S. in Iraq: the more robust the mission, the harder it is to leave. Alex de Waal, program...
...with an Idol auditioner, it is impossible to know. But the man who did more than a dozen TV interviews--saying he was doing it for his kids, for our kids, for the needy, for justice--seemed to mean it. On Good Morning America, he admitted having considered Oprah Winfrey for the Illinois Senate seat. On Today, he likened himself to a Frank Capra hero and said his arrest was like those of Mandela, M.L.K. and Gandhi. On The View, he said the Mandela-M.L.K.-Gandhi comparison had been taken "out of context," as had his recorded...
...Others watched a dry nature clip. Subjects induced to feel sad were willing to spend significantly more money on a sporty insulated water bottle offered for purchase postviewing. "This void of loss people feel makes them want to fill it up with something," says Keltner--and often that means spending a little more for a luxury item. This doesn't mean you should take on a second mortgage, 2006-style, but it wouldn't hurt you or your local coffee roaster to splurge on a cappuccino now and then...
Which doesn't mean that Barack Obama should begin weeping at press conferences to make us sad or bang his fist on a lectern to goad our anger. But his Administration might want to avoid messages that portray the recession as a frightening monster rather than as a maddening, depressing but solvable problem...