We're repeated. To walk away now would not merely destroy NATO's credibility, more importantly,

it would be a breach of faith with thousands of innocent civilians whose only desire is

to live in peace and who took us at our word.

Madam Speaker, I say this to the British people, there is a heavy responsibility on a government

when putting our armed forces into battle to justify such action. And I warn the potential

consequences of military action are serious both for the NATO forces and for the people

in the region. Their suffering cannot be ended overnight. But in my judgment, the consequences

of not acting are more serious still for human life and for peace in the long term.

We must act to save thousands of innocent men, women and children from humanitarian catastrophe,

and death, barbarism and ethnic cleansing by a brutal dictatorship, and to save the stability

of the Balkan region, where we know chaos can engulf the whole of the European Union.

Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show, where left is best as it is everywhere else for broadcasting

live from downtown Brooklyn, USA. Usually I do it in the other order, but being that

is in May, we are with super producer Matt Black. Hello Chief Economist David Griskin.

How's it going?

Vick Vion, David Slavic, Artija, everybody else holding it down in the ever-expanding

and forest, of course, ever-expanding TNBS universe on this week's program, Daniel Bessner,

professor of international relations and history at the University of Washington. We're talking

about what would a post-empire foreign policy look like? What would it look like for broadening

human rights, what it looked like in an age of extreme inequality and ecological crisis?

Also, the harmful and pernicious legacy of Samantha Power, the branding of humanitarian

intervention, U.S. Empire, and Barack Obama's infamous smart war versus dumb war distinction.

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