Defending the Libyan Intervention

    In the past few days there has been a lot of opinions voice about the NATO interventions in Libya. As usual the so called eastern bloc (China and Russia) including India  is against it. There are many who say that what happened in Iraq will be repeated in Libya. The anti-interventionists always cite the age old theme of sovereign rights of nations to do act as they please inside their countries to defend their stand.

However a closer look at history will reveal the double standards of the eastern bloc as well as justify the actions take by the west especially Britain and France.

 The non- interventionist have interfered militarily whenever their intrests were at stake in their neighboring countries.For eg: Russia in Afghanistan, Georgia etc; China in Korea, Vietnam etc, and even India in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Applying the same reason France and other European nations have all right to interfere in their neighboring country.

The Europeans are intimately affected by what happens in the middle east and Mediterranean. They have been invaded multiple time in the past 1400 years from that area. The crusades were primarily a humanitarian intervention to help Christians in the middle east

As with everything else the European interventions have caused more harm than good in several places. Only history will tell the after effects of this intervention. However the stories coming from Libya presently show that France and Great Britain may have finally interfered in the right country.