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This 3 page paper examines some of the reason that can be advanced for the use of armed intervention by one nation in another’s internal affairs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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might choose to do so. Discussion Armed intervention means that the President of the United States is making a deliberate decision to put American lives at risk in a situation
not of their making. This is not meant to suggest that Americans are intrinsically more valuable than anyone else on the planet, because they are not. The same considerations would
have to be made by the President of France, the Prime Minister of England or any other national leader. For purposes of this discussion well leave aside the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, which was justified by a complex mix of politics, humanitarianism and what appears to be the U.S. appetite for oil. Suffice it to say that motivation here
is not clear; the justification usually cited in this case is a U.N. resolution that speaks to the rights of nations to be secure from threat, which Bush interpreted to
his advantage and which led to an action that has been roundly condemned by Constitutional scholars and legal experts the world over. Instead, well consider the broader proposition: when does
a leader have the right to send troops into another country, keeping in mind that what is actually happening, no matter how its described, is an invasion of another sovereign
nations borders. One possible reason for undertaking such a mission is if the legitimate government of the other country has asked for help. This can be a valid reason, provided
several conditions are met. First, the request must be "validly expressed, in the sense that it must be clearly established (explicitly or implicitly, expressly or tacitly); it cannot be presumed"
(Tanca, 1993, p. 15). Secondly, the "consent expressed must be internationally attributable to a State. That is, it must be issued by a person or entity whose will is internationally
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