The internal affair of a country, a nation governed by its own government, refers to events or issues that occur inside the country. This essay shall explore whether it is ever morally justified for a foreign country to intervene in the internal affairs of a country; in other words, if foreign intervention is ever ethically right. This essay will argue that foreign intervention is never right as it is often used as an excuse for foreign countries to act on self-serving purposes, and on top of that, foreign intervention, contrary to helping, often make matters worst. However, this essay will also argue that there two exceptional scenarios in which foreign intervention is justifiable — one is if a country is, for whatever reason, unable to settle
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No one knows a country better than it’s own people. Therefore, is it more effective to let a country settle its own internal affairs because often times, intervention makes matters worst by either resulting in excess deaths, or eliciting competition in major powers that leads to arms races, which in turn results in surfeit damage. For example the US and British intervention in Iraq [2003-present] in order to stop of the violation of human rights from dictator Saddam Hussein. The intervention resulted in an estimate of 655,000 excess deaths [7]. It should be noted that help was not asked for, and the United Nation Security Council gave no permission for the intervention. Another example is the Syrian War. What started as a civil war in a third-world country with third-world grade weapons, turned into an arms race between USA and Russia as they both equip their respective sides with increasingly deadlier weapons in order to help them win the war [12]. Just recently, on 11 August 2016, it has been reported on the Guardian that chlorine gas attack might have resulted in the death of one woman and two children as well as dozens injured. That was note to be “one of the dozens of such attacks reported” [10] after Syria agreed to give up chemical weapons. These show how foreign intervention not only does not help resolve the internal issues of a country, a ramification of it is that it made matter much worst. Thus, for this reason, foreign intervention is never
No one knows a country better than it’s own people. Therefore, is it more effective to let a country settle its own internal affairs because often times, intervention makes matters worst by either resulting in excess deaths, or eliciting competition in major powers that leads to arms races, which in turn results in surfeit damage. For example the US and British intervention in Iraq [2003-present] in order to stop of the violation of human rights from dictator Saddam Hussein. The intervention resulted in an estimate of 655,000 excess deaths [7]. It should be noted that help was not asked for, and the United Nation Security Council gave no permission for the intervention. Another example is the Syrian War. What started as a civil war in a third-world country with third-world grade weapons, turned into an arms race between USA and Russia as they both equip their respective sides with increasingly deadlier weapons in order to help them win the war [12]. Just recently, on 11 August 2016, it has been reported on the Guardian that chlorine gas attack might have resulted in the death of one woman and two children as well as dozens injured. That was note to be “one of the dozens of such attacks reported” [10] after Syria agreed to give up chemical weapons. These show how foreign intervention not only does not help resolve the internal issues of a country, a ramification of it is that it made matter much worst. Thus, for this reason, foreign intervention is never