{"id":26685,"date":"2011-06-12T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_reassessing_libya_intervention\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T23:42:31","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_reassessing_libya_intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26685","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Reassessing Libya Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GERARD POWERS (University of Notre Dame): Thanks for having me, Kim. I think there are three broad questions. One is, were we morally justified in going in in the first place? The second is are the means that we are using morally justified, or are we proving through the means we are using that humanitarian invention, as some allede, is really just an oxymoron? And three, I think we have to think about what an ethics of exit means in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>[KIM] LAWTON: Well, let\u2019s unpack all of that. Were we justified in going in? The president said it was to protect civilians.<\/p>\n<p>POWERS: I think humanitarian intervention in extraordinary cases to protect the civilian population is justified, and not only that, there\u2019s a duty in some cases to do that. My concern is that that objective seems to be subsumed by other objectives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/june-10-2011\/reassessing-libya-intervention\/8977\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GERARD POWERS (University of Notre Dame): Thanks for having me, Kim. I think there are three broad questions. One is, were we morally justified in going in in the first place? The second is are the means that we are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26685\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,143,168,144,531,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-libya","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}