American Countries Should Be Able To Protect Their People

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said, "Strong States protect their people, while weak ones are either unwilling or unable to do so." In the same way, strong states should be willing and able to protect vulnerable people around the world who are suffering. Failure to act can result in huge numbers of people suffering or dying. The rights of human beings are more important than the rights ofa government. Also, there is a worldwide responsibility to protect populations from the worst human rights abuses. The international community should send military forces if a government is failing to treat its citizens fairly.
Failing to act can result in large amounts of people dying. For instance, in 1994, more than 500,000 people were killed in just three months in Rwanda. The Rwandan government used the ethnic Hutu militia to kill as many Tutsis as possible, which was a clear case of genocide. When Bosnian Serbs launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s, the violence continued
Nowadays, people are more aware of how their basic human rights should be respected than they used to. For example, three hundred years ago, people were put to death just for stealing and it was not judged as morally wrong. This is not allowed anymore because we value life more than we used to. We understand how important life is and we respect it. Today we also believe that a nations control within their own borders is not as important as human rights. In today's world, democracy, or "rule by the people," is seen as the best form of government to have because the government is getting its power from the people. If the government is not protecting the people, then it is not doing its job and other countries have a duty to step in. We try to promote democratic ideals around the world, but people who are having their rights violated cannot participate in a