What's more, armed intervention can have a distorting effect once the dictator has gone.
Is there an example of an armed humanitarian intervention that just saved lives?
But it looks like a good case for sanctions and maybe even armed intervention to me.
"That would be the next logical step short of armed intervention," he added.
The American public appears to have no taste for armed intervention, even by proxy.
There is always the possibility of a new Soviet armed intervention.
I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq.
At the same time, we should avoid irresponsible calls for an international armed intervention against the current tyranny.
It may come to that soon - a decision on whether to mount armed intervention to pay our bill.
He seems to have asked for armed intervention to free him to return to his capital.