But military or even aggressive diplomatic intervention is the wrong response.
Brown says he was hopeful the weekend before the war that diplomatic interventions might work.
There is still a chance to avoid war with Iraq if a "Primakov moment" (an 11th-hour diplomatic intervention) comes into play.
Subsequent British intervention, both military and diplomatic, also reduced the threat from piracy during the nineteenth century.
The need for active American diplomatic intervention is too compelling to retreat in the face of continuing violence.
After diplomatic intervention, the plan was not executed, but a precedent was established for the possible use of air strikes.
Several small nations owed their independence or freedom to his diplomatic and, yes, military intervention.
Three years later he was restored to power through the forceful diplomatic intervention of the Clinton administration, backed by 20,000 American troops.
The violence in the city stopped only after diplomatic intervention by the Count of Tendilla.
Crises such as these are managed primarily by political and diplomatic intervention to bring about the social integration of the disadvantaged minority.
