Secondly, I argued that while there might be occasions when, regardless of international law, human rights abuses are so severe that one is morally obliged to act, Kosovo was not such a case. I considered the “imminent humanitarian disaster” that the intervention was ostensibly aimed at preventing, to be largely an invention.
第二，我认为存在人权遭到极大践踏、人们不得不不顾国际法受到道义驱使采取行动的情形，但是科索沃并不属于这种情况。我认为这一干预表面上要防止“现实的人道主义灾难”很大程度上是虚构的。我进一步说，采用非军事手段解决科索沃的人道主义问题远远没有被用尽，而且用基辛格的话来说，1999年2月到3月间举行的让布里耶谈判无果而终，“只不过是开战的借口而已”。