Moral Question on Military Interventino

I have received a fair bit of feedback from people who have read the blog about military intervention in Zimbabwe or the Stephen Glover article.

The heart of the moral question appears to be this:- at what point does a crisis situation in Zimbabwe justify intervention by other nations in order to preserve the lives of vulnerable people in the country?

A related question will be:- what forms of intervention are justified?

I feel that, unfortunately, this is a question (about what is known as liberal internationalism) that the churches have signally failed to address meaningfully in relation to other similar situations, e.g. Somalia, over the years. Often the church is to be heard saying "war is not licit" or "military intervention is not justified" without ever quite stating what policy is licit.

In Zimbabwe the church has more moral force than in Europe. It is therefore a question that should receive attention.