There is no purpose in pretending that the international community will come to the rescue of the Syrian people. Why? Because the Libya intervention was too much of a success.
People in the human rights community, UN supporters and advocates of "the responsibility to protect" have a great deal riding on the success of this intervention in Libya, to say nothing of the people in Benghazi.
To add to what is apparently becoming a running series here on UN Dispatch, two new interesting takes on the role the Responsibility to Protect and Libya.
