Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been
made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading
economic and military powers--above all, the United States--in
countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for
such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and
their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to
Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left
was often complicit in this ideology of intervention--discovering
new "Hitlers" as the need arose, and denouncing antiwar arguments
as appeasement on the model of Munich in 1938.
Jean Bricmont's "Humanitarian Imperialism" is both a historical
account of this development and a powerful political and moral
critique. It seeks to restore the critique of imperialism to its
rightful place in the defense of human rights. It describes the
leading role of the United States in initiating military and other
interventions, but also on the obvious support given to it by
European powers and NATO. It outlines an alternative approach to
the question of human rights, based on the genuine recognition of
the equal rights of people in poor and wealthy countries.
Timely, topical, and rigorously argued, Jean Bricmont's book
establishes a firm basis for resistance to global war with no end
in sight.
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