Unilateral Military Force

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The United States Should Not Use Unilateral Military Force As Hassan Nasrallah states in one of his speeches, “Peace cannot be unilateral.” People love doing tasks by themselves or accomplishing a job on their own. The United States is the exact same way with its military force. The United States military force has unilaterally intervened in many situations where they should not have. Unilateral force not only causes problems for our military, but for our own citizens of the United States as well. Unilaterally intervening into other countries has caused more harm than good for the U.S. Unilateral force causes harm to the United States because it violates international law. The fundamental rule of contemporary international law is that states cannot attack other states. The U.N. Charter embodies this rule and makes only two exceptions to it: a state can attack another state if it is authorized to do so by a Security Council resolution, or if the attacking state is acting in genuine self-defense. It would also violate the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Page 2 The United States intervening unilaterally with military force would be risking its own National Security and interests because many of the proliferating countries in question, such as Iran and North Korea, are countries that historically, routinely respond to aggression with mass acts by independent, state sponsored, and/or state supported acts of terrorism and threatening acts of war. According to section 620A of the Foreign Assistant Act of 1961, Section 40 of the
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