‘Putting this point in terms of freedom, we may say that a Frankfurt-type counterfactual intervener can deprive an agent of his freedom to carry out a given want or intention, but he cannot deprive him of his freedom to form it.’
‘Sometimes this makes an intervener complicit in repression.’
‘Such a commitment requires interveners to take casualty risks to the extent needed to avoid killing large numbers of civilians and damaging their social infrastructure.’
‘Even ardent supporters of humanitarian intervention recognize that there must be some assessment of reasonable cost for the interveners.’
‘In assessing a humanitarian intervention, a third point of controversy involves the question of how much we should care about the motives of the intervener.’
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