Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Not worth it

The United States should not do anything about sex trafficking in other countries. There are too many problems within the country right now to worry about something that does not even affect us. Granted sex trafficking is not right in any way, but America would just waste money it does not have in order to try to stop something the country with the problem should stop on its own. Also, if America tries to stop sex trafficking in other countries, it just makes us look like we are trying to enforce our views on the world more so than we already are. Our attempts to stop sex trafficking, in Cambodia for instance, might provoke military resistance from the Cambodian government. The last thing America needs is a reason to regret a major moment in history (first African American president) by going into a pointless war. My view would fit in with liberalism if the government were only interested in protecting the rights of everyone within its own ruler-ship; however, if the government wanted to protect the rights of everyone in the world then my argument would not fit into liberalism. Everyone deserves rights and deserves to be free, but it is too difficult, and sometimes pointless, for another country to impose rights and wrongs onto another country.

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