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  Weighing the Arguments
      The international community has accepted, in principle, the responsibility to protect people from suffering at the hands of their own governments. The decision to intervene in a conflict, however, cannot be taken by simply assessing facts. Counter-factual considerations matter very much. By Henning Melber
  
  
      
  
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               Henning Melber