Milking empathy? Jean Bricmont, Author of Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is said to be the definition of insanity, but in Western circles, it’s called a policy of doubling down. Why is the West so rigid in its ways, even when the tried and tested course of action doesn’t deliver or delivers the opposite of what’s expected? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Jean Bricmont, author of Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War and a professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.