Examples Of Humanitarian Intervention In Afghanistan

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America intervened in Afghanistan, a sovereign state in 2001 after the 9/11 attack to save the world from mass atrocities that the Al-Qaeda is planning to carry forward. The major reason to intervene was threat to national security. This reason was just used as an excuse to intervene in Afghanistan. There are also a number of other justifications such as they built democratic intuitions and started a number of projects for welfare of the people but they are unable to justify their invention till today.

In expressing humanitarian intervention in this manner, two forms of behavior sometimes linked with the term must be purposely rejected namely, non-forcible intervention and forcible intervention.

There are four conditions, which have to be met for an intervention in order to be justifying according to Solidarist Theory of Legitimate Humanitarian Intervention.

According to America, they had a just cause: to capture Osama and to stop the activities of Al-Qaeda. They even asked Taliban to handover Osama and other leaders. Taliban refused and they didn’t have any other option except intervention. They were also unable to meet the requirement of proportionality.

The American government was not concerned about the rights of the Afghanistan’s population. As a result, America intervened in Afghanistan to fight against Taliban and Al- Qaida.

One of the most important reasons for intervention was the threat to national security and it is it legal to take measures for self-defense

They desired to protect themselves from Taliban and Al Qaeda. Afghanistan proved to be a safe place for the Al-Qaeda. They negotiated with them regardless of lack of diplomatic relations between the two.
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...eignty. If one country wants to help vulnerable people, they can do it by providing aid but not by humanitarian intervention or by keeping their forces for more than 12 years. constituting to deaths of thousands of soldiers is illegal. They are unable to justify the intervention, as four of the requirements were not met. This war was started with the goal to capture Osama bin laden and he was captured and killed in 2011 in Pakistan but still the war is going on. This war is not against Al Qaeda but is against Taliban’s because Al Qaeda is not only present in Afghanistan but they are widely spread in the entire world. Hence attack only 1 country such as Afghanistan seems unjustified. Everything comes to end with the time, hence this war will also come to end someday but till that time, America will keep on losing their high ethical status in the eyes of the world.

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