Humanitarian Defense. The death of the concept.

via the Urban Dictionary.

From the roots, defend + human; Humanitarian Defense is the taking of proactive action to defend human rights and the lives and well being of people. Humanitarian defense actions go beyond simply providing aid, medical treatment and supplies to victims, they take action to prevent and/or reverse the actions that caused the victimization. These actions may take the form of the direct protection of people, the building of programs and offering support to people/governments on the verge of victimization and bold actions to help victims recover from derogatory events. Term credited to the international non-profit, non-governmental organization; Humanitarian Defense Inc.
A Humanitarian Defense operation is one in which an organization, group or government intervenes on behalf of a group of innocent people that are being attacked, victimized or killed and takes direction action to stop said actions.

I never thought I would see this day.

Liberal or Progressive Groups have (at least for the past few years) been pushing the idea that in addition to wars that are strictly tied to National Security, the only other legal warfare should be wars in which we're conducting Humanitarian Defense of "world citizens".

But with the debate over Syria heating up here in the US and with the Brits effectively shooting down the idea, we're seeing the practical end of the humanitarian defense concept.

Susan Rice and Samantha Powers championed the concept inside the administration so its ironic that their biggest success with it (Libya) proved to be one of the factors that helped kill it.