Can an intervention ever be humanitarian?

Basically interventions could be humanitarian if they would be under the strict rule of a neutral command. These would be rather more police actions than military actions and these actions would need a justification by a majority of the rest of the world. In case of an offence against basic human rights by a criminal regime or government an intervention could be right and justified. But this is extreme fiction and theory because there are only very few countries which are able to these actions and so there will be always involved an extreme egoistic and selfish intention of those nations which are executing such an intervention. So all interventions in the last 70 years were nothing but a flop and without any exception another try by the executing nations to realize their own politicial goals. The UN is unable to get troops for these purposes and so only 2or 3 nations in the world have the capability to execute such an intervention. A neutral kind of leadership over all activities ...  more

To put it in a nutshell: Anglo-American interventions are always humanitarian interventions by itself. So it is a stupid question. An Anglo-American interventiosn is a humanitarian one if it is only Anglo-American- no matter whatever they do.  more