Humanitarian intervention to further dematerialise
Experts advocate stricter self-interest; resources to define justness of wars
Humanitarian intervention opportunification has declined rapidly over the past 20 years and will likely continue to do so into the foreseeable future and beyond, an American think-tank says.
The annual report of the Unified States Academy for Greater Intervention Through Humane and Enlightened Methodologies (USAGINTHEM) suggests economic decline means “America will have to come first”, at least until the sub-hyperpower can maintain sufficient military capacity to control its own citizens.
In what is considered a historical first, the report claims military interventions in other countries will become strictly dependent on the nature and quantity of those countries’ natural resources, and the extent of their inability to fight back.
“Clearly this is an unprecedented situation,” said Claiborne P. Minuteman, the retired general, who is a founding member of the Academy and co-author of its latest survey.
“It’s tragic to think that the American military-industrial complex, with its long tradition of bringing wealth, freedom and universal human values to other cultures, can no longer fulfil its vital function as leader and protector of the free world,” he said.
The report’s conclusion strikes a balance. While it claims there’s still a city on a hill, above which America’s beacon burns for huddled masses, researchers caution against taking promises of liberation too literally.
Freedom lovers should be wary, they warn, because “the exigent contingencies of the global economic situation and the defection of a substantive numerosity of civilian contractors mean we have to scale down our ambitions, however idealistic they may be.”
