Let's Help Them

The U.S. should attempt to help foreign countries eradicate sex slavery, but definitely without the use of the military or violence. As long as the U.S. attempts to help Cambodia without any underlying agendas, I see no reason why the U.S. should become involved in eliminating human trafficking. However, if the U.S. is going to attack human trafficking in Cambodia, we should attack human trafficking all over the world. Therefore, other powerful countries should be asked to help to defeat or at least minimize sex slavery. (Yes, there are a lot of stipulations!) The U.S. should first create awareness of sex slavery throughout the world. As Kristof said, it is amazing that feminist groups in the U.S. are not all over this problem. The more people who are incensed by this injustice, the more progress we will make towards eradicating it. I also agree with Kristof, in that the education of women throughout the world should be a major goal of the U.S., with the help of other countries. It seems that the reason women end up in sex slavery is lack of an education. If adequate education was provided to women, they will better be able to support their families. Thus, a young girl with a strong sense of family duty, like Srey Neth, could not be manipulated into sex slavery, seeing it as the only option to support her family. Furthermore, the U.S. government would need the cooperation of the Cambodian government (or whatever country we are trying to help) to support the new education system and crack down on sex slavery. At the end of it all, I feel that a person’s freedom is worth fighting for and that we should not let people suffer in a situation they had no hand in creating for themselves. I believe this idea is in line with liberalism, in that people do have innate rights and those rights should be protected.