Foreign Powers Should Not Intervene in Syria's Civil War

I will rebut this round, and offer my own case in the following round. Is this unconventional? Yes. But why, you may ask, is YYW being unconventional? Because I'm tired and forgot about this until now. I am obviously a terrible person. Without further ado, it's debating time. 1. National Sovereignty CP frames intervention in Syria through the lens of national sovereignty such that because Syria is a sovereign state, foreign powers have "no right" to intervene. I take issue with that notion because if we accept that Syria is an ongoing humanitarian crisis where human rights are being violated by the Assad regime, then the Syrian government has lost it's claim to legitimacy as a state and therefore lost its claim to sovereignty because it has failed to do what states are foremost obliged to do -which is to protect the rights of its (the state's) subjects. So, because the Assad government has not only failed to protect the rights of its citizens by violating their rights, the Assad government is illegitimate and therefore has no claim to sovereignty. 2. Human Rights and Picking Sides The Syrian people's rights have been violated by the Syrian Government, which is being led by Assad. What we call that violation is less important than the fact that a violation of rights has occurred -and even still, people do not loose rights in wartime. Because a state's violating the rights of its citizens undercuts that state's legitimacy, and therefore has no claim to sovereignty, those states that violate the rights of their citizens are subject to international intervention in the interest of those whose rights were violated. In this case, that means that external intervention is acceptable in response to the crisis in Syria. That is not to say who is obliged to intervene or how that intervention by external forces is to be executed, but that intervention is permissible on behalf of those whose rights are violated. 3. Stability, Freedom and Unpredictability To promote stability and to defend the rights of the Syrian people from violation by the government to which they are presently subject is a legitimate justification for intervention because -aside from the fact that the Syrian government has no claim to sovereignty- it is the moral responsibility of those who can prevent atrocities from transpiring to prevent atrocities from happening. This is the case because by not intervening, governments are given licensee to abuse their subjects with impunity. It is therefore the responsibility, the duty, of the international community to in some way intervene to ameliorate the abuse of the Syrian people. If we accept that those governments which protect and uphold the rights of their people are the most stable (as the example of the Arab Spring countries my opponent cited), and that those which do not uphold the rights of their people and even violate the rights of their people are not only prone to domestic instability, but that their risk of domestic instability poses a potential threat to international and regional geopolitical stability by risking conflict's spilling into bordering countries then it must be in the best interest of especially those countries who border potentially unstable countries to intervene against those governments who abuse the rights of their people by neutralizing that stability threat. 4. Intervention in War Intervention may but does not necessarily require force. Intervention could be only non-military aid to rebels, such as providing rebels with foodstuffs and medical supplies. Intervention could be restricted to intelligence gathering in a non-beligerant capacity. Even still, while the use of force may prove to be necessary in defense of the rights of the Syrian people, that use of force is justified because it is in defense of the rights of those whose rights are unjustly violated by their government. In conclusion, foreign powers should intervene, for the reasons above. Peace out. I'll use my opponent's sources in this round indirectly, and use my own later.