I opposed military intervention for two reasons.

Furthermore, military or semi military intervention is not the only option on the table.

Another military intervention is the last thing the country needs.

The emerging security concept of the responsibility to protect , coupled with humanitarian intervention, remains grounded in military action and has been used in the past to justify violent military intervention.

Here too, however, actual military intervention should only be a last resort.

Military intervention has no visible end point and would only increase chaos.

European interest in military intervention in Africa is as low as ever.

Even more unsettling was the anecdotal evidence of public support for military intervention.

In Syria, a Libyan style military intervention is not warranted, but diplomatic intervention is needed to allow the country's people to determine its future.

Few suggest that French military intervention was a means to recapture its colonial empire.

Its example shows that military intervention should always be followed by active State building.

French and British military intervention was successful in Libya in 2011 at least in part as a result of US military procurement.

While military intervention in Syria may be impossible, imposing a no fly zone is not.

But military intervention in Darfur without the Sudanese government s consent is not an option today.

Those pressing for military intervention in Darfur would probably say that this is a bad thing.

Moreover, budget restrictions have severely constrained French military capabilities. French and British military intervention was successful in Libya in 2011 at least in part as a result of US military procurement.

No one in his right mind suggested that military intervention in China would be a good idea.

Citing the British mission to Sierra Leone, Collier argues for military intervention, when feasible, to secure peace.

Foreign military intervention can effect regime change, but it evidently cannot reestablish order based on centralized government.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

The boycott was launched in response to the Crimean crisis and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

As a result, any attempt at decisive military intervention would be not only difficult, but also extremely risky.

Human rights violations elicit an international outcry and condemnation, followed by intervention and occupation by foreign military forces.

The American administration made it clear that military intervention by Turkey in Northern Iraq would not be tolerated.

More generally, United States interests in Latin America had led to both direct military intervention (as in Panama, with the seizing of Manuel Noriega) and covert intervention in the form of support given to certain military groups (Nicaragua) and the financing of mercenaries (Guatemala).

Any military intervention would entail a confrontation not only with the Syrian military (supported by Russia and China), but also with Shia Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

Poland has also led on European defense (though it declined to take part in the military intervention in Libya).

Obama ultimately overturned his bureaucrats position, proposing a strong military intervention, without ground troops, for a very limited period.

Then, for the first time ever, the Council explicitly authorized military intervention by member states to achieve these objectives.

Of course, military intervention for purposes beyond defending one s country remains possible, but requires a UN Security Council resolution.

Military intervention would merely further complicate the issue, while creating new layers of conflict in our region and beyond.

This justifies, in the view of those imagining, the military intervention that has been seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

CASMII is an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions, foreign state interference and military intervention in Iran.

Kosovo, to a significant degree, owes its independence to a NATO military intervention undertaken in the name of human rights.

The introduction of chemical weapons and the possibility of Western military intervention threaten to draw Israel directly into the conflict.

Following the AKP s parliamentary election victory in July, and now with the election of Gül, many observers predicted military intervention.

Now, however, it recoils at any prospect of military intervention, even as it remains the world s third largest arms exporter.

This act was forced on the Italian government by Napoleon III, who threatened military intervention if Garibaldi were not stopped.

But what the Arab countries couldn t do with military support, they were able to do by providing political cover for the military intervention led by the US, Britain, and France.

Many of the voices that called for, and then bungled, military intervention in Iraq are now calling for war with Iran.

In particular, they shared the neo cons conviction that military intervention is a legitimate and effective way of achieving political change.

Hollande supported the military intervention in Libya in 2011, and has joined the condemnation of Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime.

The project is being pursued in the face of strong Egyptian objections military intervention has been threatened yet it continues apace.

Military intervention in Iraq had been justified because it had been necessary to put an end to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.

In the case of the resolution on military intervention in Libya, the BRICS decided to let Col. Muammar el Qaddafi be overthrown.