Eric Martin urges us to carefully evaluate whether an Responsibility to Protect (R2P) intervention will escalate into regime change:
[T]he lesson is that we should look at every proposed R2P missions with that potential escalation front and center. At the outset, we must determine whether there is a strong likelihood that we could protect the civilian population in question by a military action that falls short of regime change. If not, it is essential that we fully appreciate exactly how serious this proposed military involvement is, and what it could entail in terms of ongoing responsibilities.
In Libya, we were given, what?, two days to think this through. Matt Fay is infuriated that NATO is refusing to tally the civilian casualties caused by the intervention.
The Dish 