Discussion
(1) The initial US-led invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 are not examples of humanitarian interventions.
(2) Humanitarian outcomes were predicted as byproducts of these operations by US Policy makers.
Answer: A
The key's answer is that (1) and (2) are correct and (2) explains the rationale for (1).
A humanitarian intervention is one whose primary purpose is to protect people of another state from mass atrocities. The US-led invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) were launched for other reasons: self-defence after the September 11 attacks, and the alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. So statement (1) is correct.
Statement (2) is also correct: US policy makers did predict humanitarian benefits, such as freeing Afghans from the Taliban and Iraqis from Saddam Hussein, but only as by-products. That is precisely why the operations are not counted as humanitarian interventions, since humanitarian protection was not their aim, so (2) explains (1). The options calling either statement wrong fail on these facts.
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