The above image isn't doing much to dispel the fear that the "responsibility to protect" doctrine invoked in Libya is a thin veneer for modern imperialism:
One might suppose that the selection of this particular photo as the banner image is just a fluke, but the same photo is also used as the cover image in the ICRtoP's latest report — again without any attribution or context. In fact, the same image is now used on over 200 websites. The preference for this 11 year old photo — particularly for a website that discusses current interventions justified on the grounds of R2P is peculiar to say the least. In the absence of any context, the image becomes an abstraction; it is an image of European soldiers, acting in the name of the international community and benevolently protecting a group of happy but poor, brown children in some nameless tropical locale. In other words, this is the new portrait of the white man's burden.
The Dish 