THBT covert operations to overthrow a malicious government doing harm to its own people would be justifiable.
- National sovereignty
- The continuity of policies
- Covert operations are acts of personal gain. Abuse of power
I’m the deputy leader of opposition and I will be elaborating on our second and third points.
Our second point is that if there is an outer intervention to a country in a revolution or uprising, it is likely that the continuity of policies or something that the revolution achieved would not last long. The people of the country will rely on the outer force and will become dependent upon the outer intervention. However, if that becomes the case, when the so called, ‘outer force’ moves out of the country, the people in the country will be devastated because they haven’t learned how to govern and manage themselves. It is really hard for inexperienced groups of people to be independent and govern their country when the outer force achieved everything for the people of that country. For example, after the Korean War, Seung Man Lee became the first president of South Korea. He was mainly appointed by the US high officials and the country of South Korea and its people were too dependent on US, so we believed that everything was going to be well. However, it did not go well. Seung Man Lee became a tyrant, who restrained people from attaining true democracy by controlling the press and the election for presidency. People had to form a nationwide riot against him in order to subvert the corrupt government and many people died in the process.
Our last point is that covert operations done by other countries are often acts of personal gain and serve as abuse of power. Countries’ priorities are benefits of themselves and their own citizens. It is extremely unlikely for the countries to volunteer to help other countries without concerning about the merits that they can get from helping. Stronger countries help out the weaker countries in order to gain their trust and oftentimes take advantage of the weaker countries by abusing their power. Also, stronger countries, worrying about their own merits, become extremely selective about who to help and who not to help. For example, United States of America did not hesitate to send the military in to take out Kadafi and his regime. This is because, Kadafi was against United States and by taking out Kadafi, US could stay in Libya, saying that they need to help the people until they find the new leader and settle in with their new system. This could serve as a good excuse to stay in Libya and appoint someone who is in favor of US as the new leader. However, in the case of Egypt, when the people of Egypt tried to overthrow the former president, Hosni Mubarak, who proved himself as an obvious tyrant by staying as the president of Egypt for several decades by faking elections and killing the protesters by using military, United States did not take any action because the former president of Egypt was supportive of US.
These are the two points and these two points obviously prove that covert operations as an outer interference should not be tolerated.
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