Military Intervention for Humanitarian Purposes

Essay on military intervention for humanitarian purposes

Military Intervention:

The Last and Often Unavoidable Method of Humanitarian Salvation

Planet Earth has lapsed into the era of the international society. But unlike the ÐŽ®Golden SocietyЎЇ everybody dreamed of, humanitarian crises are everywhere. And unlike a unit society where a government backs laws and ethics, the international society relies on its members to keep each otherЎЇs rights and to help each country maintain itЎЇs own internal societyЎЇs health.

ThatЎЇs why we see so many acts of force-for-humanitarian-purposes around the globe. ItЎЇs all to keep the world in good health. While it might be hard to understand, higher-level society units are created to maintain and help smaller units of society. Meaning that a state of the international society has an obligation to help and guide the members of another country if it is needed to keep the peopleЎЇs rights. After all, itЎЇs better than leaving a couple million fellow globetrotters with their rights depraved.

But there are arguments against this, the act of having a back-up force to help out in humanitarian crises. It is said that the very act of infringing on a countryЎЇs borders or political boundaries is infringing upon that countryЎЇs rights as a member of the international society. Needless to say, this goes against the fundamental reason of our societiesЎЇ making: our country-unit societies were made to protect individualЎЇs rights, and the globe-unit international society was made to protect nationsЎЇ rights. The international society was built upon the country-level societies, and keeping a nationЎЇs right includes keeping that countryЎЇs individualsЎЇ rights. If we also employ the fact that a nationЎЇs right is often seen as composed of itЎЇs citizensЎЇ rights, then we can conclude that an international member should intervene in a neighbor country when the neighbor countryЎЇs citizensЎЇ rights, or the neighbor countryЎЇs rights themselves are being completely disregarded. A simple analogy would be stopping a neighbor from committing suicide: a neighbor deciding to cut off his or her own rights, and a neighbor who