Is There "Just Cause" for Nations to Intervene in the Affairs of Other Nations?

Should other nations intervene in Iraq or between the Palestinians and Israelis? Increasing mind-numbing conflicts around the world raise the level of debate over this difficult question.

by Graemme Marshall

W as there a moral responsibility for outside powers to intervene in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Kuwait and Afghanistan? The failure of the United Nations and major powers to intervene in the conscience-shattering ethnic cleansing in Rwanda provokes the dilemma: to intervene or not to intervene? That 1994 war resulted in an estimated death toll of between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans, mostly members of the Tutsi ethnic group.

When mass murder, ethnic cleansing, rape and enforced starvation are out of control, shouldn't other nations intervene? But who, how and to what extent? Adding to this dilemma is global terrorism's appalling attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on New York and Washington, D.C.

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