Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle

[Lydia Leftcoast]

100. Conflicts like Libya and Syria are treated like Evil vs. Good in the U.S. media, but

the truth is a lot more nuanced. The government opponents are no angels. Recall that after Qaddafi was overthrown, the rebels started massacring black Africans.

The Serbian government was the aggressor in Kosovo, no doubt, but the breakup of Yugoslavia set all sorts of bad stuff loose on all sides. My church in Portland sponsored refugees from Bosnia and Kosovo, so we heard stories about atrocities from all quarters.

Again, a more nuanced situation than Serbs bad, other groups good.

There are ethnic conflicts going on all over the world all the time: Tamils vs. Sinhalese, Lao vs. Hmong, Darfur, Somalia, Pakistanis vs. Indians in Kashmir, Russians vs. Chechens, Chinese vs. Tibetans, general chaos in the Congo, government vs. Indians in the Andean countries of South America, Fijians vs. East Indians, Israelis vs. Palestinians. We can't intervene in all of them. They are a sad fact of life.