Michael Walzer: Humanitarian Intervention

The injustice of slavery and degrading of human life has long been in existence in the world. Slavery in the western hemisphere has been prevalent, especially in Cuba. The Spanish-American war originated with the Cuban struggle for independence from the Spanish empire which began in February 1895. In this paper I will examine if the United States intervention in freeing the Cuban people was for humanitarian reasons or like Michael Walzer suggests, that the United States would never send their troops into other states in order to only save lives. I will agree and reference to Walzer and his writing on humanitarian intervention, to prove that there are never real cases of nations providing purely humanitarian intervention.