In particular, unlike previous situations – ranging from the Burmese response to Cyclone Nargis to the Sri Lankan military’s civilian massacres masquerading as a legitimate response to terrorist insurgency – there is little conceptual disagreement now about what are, and are not, “RtoP cases.” For all of the lamentable inadequacy of the Security Council’s response to the situation in Syria, no one has seriously argued that it is not an RtoP case.
尤其与之前的情况——从缅甸对纳吉斯气旋所做出的反应到斯里兰卡军队伪装成打击恐怖分子叛乱的合理对策所进行的针对平民的屠杀——不同的是，现在对哪些情况属于、哪些不属于“保护责任案例”并不存在概念上的分歧。虽然安理会对叙利亚局势的对策之匮乏令人痛心，但没有人真正提出这不属于保护责任范畴。