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This 3 page paper discusses various criteria given for armed intervention, and argues that the President should try diplomatic and humanitarian solutions before military ones, which should be the absolutely last resort. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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potential loss of life and damage to property. This paper discusses the criteria that exist for armed intervention; it also discusses what criteria the President of the U.S. could use
for making such a decision. Discussion The example of armed intervention that obviously comes to mind is the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Based on distortions and what appear to be
outright lies by officials of the U.S. government, the invasion is now considered not only to be a failure, but a disastrous mistake, one that has set the cause of
U.S. foreign policy and international relations back decades. The war in Iraq is acknowledged as one of the reasons Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President: a staunch opponent
of the war, he became the first anti-war candidate elected to the highest office while the U.S. is engaged in conflict. The American people are demanding an end to this
example of armed intervention. The invasion of Iraq has always seemed a questionable adventure. Theories for its undertaking range from an oil grab to the desire on the part of
the Bush Administration to have a justification for keeping American troops in the Middle East in perpetuity, again to keep the flow of oil open to the West. If true,
these are despicable reasons for armed intervention; they are also obviously wrong. But not all international problems are so apparent. In an article in The International Herald Tribune, Richard
Haass suggests three reasons why nations might consider armed intervention. The first is when a "state commits or fails to prevent genocide or crimes against humanity on its territory" (Haass,
2003). Haass argues that in such cases, the international community has the right, "and in some cases the obligation, to act to safeguard the lives of innocents" (Haass, 2003). It
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