Responses to "Strong State, Weak State" either misstate principles of R2P, mischaracterize its nature, or are simply unfounded concerns. Continued dispassionate discourse about R2P, heretofore seemingly lacking amongst armchair diplomatists, will help in dispelling such myths.

The enabling and assistance of states to solve their own problems—not the usurpation of sovereignty—is at the root of R2P and Sovereignty as Responsibility. Time and again representatives of R2P and the United Nations have expressed their explicit position that the UN wishes to avoid military interventions, but also wishes to prevent atrocities from occurring. This balance is prudent and necessary to ensure that states are fully functioning members of the international community and that any state that requires assistance in carrying out its duties of protection receives it in a timely manner.