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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23-1

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In Libya and elsewhere, the state depends on submission

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

02/22/11

Today in Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, free individuals, having awoken to the proposition that state power depends on their submission, are disobeying the despotic orders of the political class. In the face of savage violence and the stark disregard of their pleas for freedom, people in these countries continue to gather together in audacious defiance of those who call themselves rulers...

http://c4ss.org/content/6239



Overdue end to the old world order

Spiked
by Mick Hume

02/23/11

The Arab uprisings shocked us all -- but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10223/



Tiptoeing to war with Libya

The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy

02/22/11

Aside from making Western interventionists feel better about themselves, the only use the symbolic measures proposed by Lynch have is to set a pretext for large-scale military invention, which Lynch insists he does not want. ('I don?t call for a direct military intervention.') Imposing no-fly zone is not symbolic, of course: it?s 'direct military intervention' pure and simple, an act of war. If a single NATO jet goes down, pressure to invade North Africa will be nigh irresistible. Interventionists of all stripes are fully aware of this...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/02/22/tiptoeing-to-war-with-libya/



Agnostics for pacifism

EconLog
by Bryan Caplan

02/23/11

By itself, I freely admit, extreme uncertainty is a double-edged sword. The consequences of war might be worse than you thought; they might be even better. But as I've argued in my common-sense case for pacifism, pacifists just need to add the weak moral premise that 'before you kill innocent people, you should be reasonably sure that your action will have very good consequences.' This plausible premise, combined with the uncertainty of foreign affairs, creates an almost insurmountable presumption against war...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/agnostics_for_p.html


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