R2P ADVOCATE:''FACING CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY LEGITIMACY''

 http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/09/r2p-facing-crisis-of-democratic-legitimacy/#sthash.qfoGR9qS.dpuf
“President Obama’s failure to get Congress to support airstrikes in Syria, coupled with the vote against military action in the British House of Commons, brings home a key fact about international politics: when given a choice, democratic peoples are reluctant to authorize their leaders to use force to protect civilians in countries far away,” says Michael Ignatieff, a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
 “In 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, on which I served, developed the idea that all states, but especially democracies, have a ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians when they are threatened with mass killing. For those of us who have worked hard to promote this concept, it’s obvious that our idea is facing a crisis of democratic legitimacy,” he writes in The New York Times: [[[[[The core problem is public anger at the manipulation of consent: disillusion with the way in which leaders and policy elites have used moral and humanitarian arguments to extract popular support for the use of force in Iraq and Libya, and then conducted those interventions]]]]] in ways that betrayed their lack of true commitment to those principles. …Rebuilding popular democratic support for the idea of our duty to protect civilians, when no one else can or will, is a critical challenge in the years ahead. … The real challenge comes when prevention fails, when force becomes the last resort. [[[[Here the public’s problem is mission creep, the way protection of civilians morphs into regime change.]]] Many people who were prepared to stop Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s slaughtering of civilians in Benghazi grew increasingly uneasy when that mandate was used to bomb Tripoli. We need to make sure that the military puts civilian protection first and last as its sole legitimate purpose
[ed notes:though most biographies describe ignatieff as a canadian liberal,facts reveal he actually came from zio/neocon carr centre... Michael Ignatieff described himself in a 2007 biographical note as a "a Canadian scholar, writer, journalist and lifelong Liberal." http://web.archive.org/web/20070328191113/http://www.michaelignatieffmp.ca/about.html
He is the former Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy....backround on ziocon carr centre...see... http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/07/chomsky-fraud-attacks-chavez-for-necon.html