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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
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Right, but if you have press reporting as we do about Gaza, it's really hard to make the claim that the rest of the world is failing to act because of anything we did or didn't know.
And it's also hard to make the claim that it was the sanctioned presence of the international press that was important in any of those cases, for any reason really. What good did knowing really do when the UN peacekeepers let one side go in a slaughter people?
Assuming the international press did document "war crimes," what do you think would happen? I'm not that optimistic that shame is that powerful a motivator here AND I'd be really surprised if anything but a strongly worded UN resolution followed.
Again, it's not that I'm like "yay, war crimes," but I think that ultimately most situations are resolved by someone having the brute strength and the will to use it to prevent action by the other side. Sometimes the threat of using that strength is enough, but people have to know you mean it.
Sometimes the strength can be economic as well.