[lbo-talk] Rieff on humanitarian intervention

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Jul 10 21:30:00 PDT 2003


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Shane Taylor wrote:


> "We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes.
> Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow
> men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the
> objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."
>
> -- Lionel Trilling

That's a great summing up of Aid business. Would you have a cite for it handy?

Michael



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