I have time and time again been hearing students in my classes talk about how we can talk and talk, yet none of us are doing anything. At first, comments just annoyed me, but as time passes, and I hear it repeated, I am left with a single question: Why is the quest for understanding and the spread of information through discussion, in order to discover how rhetoric (or any other subject matter) affects an issue such as humanitarian intervention not in itself an action toward solving the problems that have plagued humanitarianism for years? Read the rest of this entry »

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