Saddam was a tyrant and a mass-murderer, and Blairites still argue that the invasion was an exercise in humanitarian intervention – it was nothing of the sort.
"We continue to express our hope that the Iranian authorities will exercise the humanitarian option of releasing these two young men," she said.
On May 3rd, Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, said he was considering asking India to help in this Dunkirk-like exercise, for "humanitarian" reasons.It is a measure of the low morale of the Sri Lankan army that the large number of its men in the peninsula were being chased by not more than a few thousand guerrillas.
The two sides agreed to hold counterpiracy maneuvers in the Gulf of Aden by year's end, to hold talks on operational safety in Hawaii and China, and to plan exercises in humanitarian relief for 2012.
Signed in 1998, the VFA accorded legal status to thousands of U.S. troops who are rotated into the country for military exercises and humanitarian assistance operations.
It is a humanitarian exercise which feels like a military intervention.
Many will die, I know.' While Basra burns, the 23rd Pioneer Regiment is leading what is tantamount to an emergency humanitarian exercise in the middle of a war zone.
It is a soap opera, a tragedy, a comedy, an investigative agency, a liberal political commentary, a scourge of pomposity and corruption, a humanitarian exercise, all rolled into one.
Aid agencies are struggling to carry out one of the biggest humanitarian exercises in history.
With at least 5 million people in need, the relief effort is already one of the biggest humanitarian exercises in history.
