October 3, 2006 5:22PM 

# Posner on Humanitarian Intervention 

By [Mark Moller](https://www.cato.org/people/mark-moller) 

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Below [Andrew](https://www.cato.org/2006/10/02/logic-is-not-the-enemy-lets-be-kind-to-it/) criticizes the claim that our Iraq intervention has failed because it has increased the risk of terrorist attacks. While I, as a caveman lawyer, have little expertise on matters of foreign relations, I am an expert on what *other lawyers* have to say about foreign relations.

[Here](http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/10/the_humanitaria.html#more), Chicago law professor Eric Posner (and son of Richard Posner) argues that the Iraq war has revealed a different trade-off: the uncertain payoff of humanitarian military intervention.

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