By Noam Chomsky - September 16, 2008
Such notions as "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" [have come] to be salient features of Western discourse on policy, commonly described as establishing a "new norm" in international affairs...There are few basic changes in the guiding conceptions [of US imperialism] as we proceed to the Bush II doctrine, which elicited unusual mainstream protest, not because of its basic content, but because of its brazen style and arrogance...
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