Response to “The Politics of Rescue”

Before reading this article, I always felt that the United States should not intervene in other countries’ internal affairs. I believed that we had too many problems in our own cities that needed remedy before we went out fixing other people’s problems. Although I still mostly feel this way, this article helped me to recognize and understand viable reasons why the United States should intervene. When people are being made “…victims of [radical] tyranny, ideological zeal, [or] ethnic hatred…”, then I can accept the arguments for foreign intervention. If vast numbers of these victims are being exiled, tortured, or murdered, then I may even have to agree with the arguments. To take it a step further, if the victims themselves are crying out for the foreign interventions, then I do not see how they can be denied.