Samantha Power travels to Ethiopia amid allegations of genocide and famine

Energy’s previous advocacy for humanitarian intervention, together with with U.S. navy power, has fallen out of favor lately as public confidence in Washington’s capacity to reshape distant lands wanes. U.S. forces will conclude a 20-year occupation in Afghanistan in September, and the navy will formally finish fight operations in Iraq by the top of the yr, Biden said last week. The 2 missions have price thousands of lives, trillions of dollars and fallen far wanting U.S. ambitions to result in stability, democracy or prosperity. The protracted chaos and bloodshed in Libya following the ouster of Moammar Gaddafi in a NATO-led navy operation in 2011 additionally dampened the attraction of humanitarian interventions.