The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo

The notion of "humanitarian war" ought to be mocked by those paid to keep the record straight. But it remains a propaganda success. Noam Chomsky, our greatest unraveller of accredited lies, addresses this in his powerful new book, "The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo." The Nato action, he writes, "has ...[opened] gates to a...new epoch of moral rectitude under the guiding hand of an 'idealistic New World bent on ending inhumanity'."...The new military humanism, like the Third Way, is a euphemism for the rehabilitation of an imperialism that dares not speak its name --John Pilger in the New Statesman