Resolved: On balance, the United States federal govenment is justified in intervening in the intern

Contention 1: The Theory of is.Because of the wording of the resolution and where is is placed all I have to do is point out one event where the US wasn't justified. The resolution states the US is justified, not was. Thus meaning that the US hasn't done anything wrong yet. Contention 2: The United States has done more harm then good when intervening with other nations.ChileIn Chile, the United States wanted a more American supportive government and they intervened in the 1970's, but it only turns out that after the assassination the nation's new leader is anti-American and commits great atrocities of which weren't happening before the US intervened and caused a coup to get rid of the old government in Chile. (https://www.cia.gov...)KyrgyzstanThe US intervened here to in order to eliminate an Islamist regime in order to install a western friendly government and it came out even worse. The current government restricts water rights which are key to these people and the reason that we don't hear about it in America is because the United States doesn't want to admit their own failure! (http://spectator.org...)Middle EastMany people argue that we've gone into Iraq and done great for their government, but the truth is that we went in their for oil and in Pakistan and Afghanistan the United States discovered a REM (rare earth metal) deposit and decided to exploit it! (http://whowhatwhy.com...) Heck the CIA has even created Al-Qaeda and given them $3 billion dollar to fight against the USSR.(http://www.theinsider.org...) and (http://news.bbc.co.uk...) Contention 3: The United NationsMy opponent for some reason has brought up the United Nations. I'd like to remind him that this debate is about the US not the United Nations. The United Nations has also failed significantly to uphold the resolution as well. The United Nations has failed to intervene in other nations as they have failed to defuse both the Syrian and the Iranian Crisis. (http://www.foreignpolicy.com...)Contention 4: Sovereignty is more important One of the United Nations Core policies is to respect other nation's sovereignty. (http://www.un.org...) A nation's sovereignty is extremely important. Noam Chomsky nailed the topic of isolation with this quote, "Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible." As you see Noam Chomsky, who is a political commentator and a philosopher, has showed that intervention can cause a nation to lose it's morals and what the nation stands for. Contention 5: Civil War Means ProgressLet me give you another quote here. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," Thomas Jefferson. When nation's don't intervene in another nation's Civil War great progress can occur. Let me give the example of the American Civil War. This war was fought to preserve the Union of the United States of America. When the war ended Slavery was abolished, blacks received Civil Rights (like the right to vote and become citizens), and Democracy was still in existence and the United States is currently the 12th freest nation in the world. (http://www.heritage.org...) Or how about France? The nation of France went through countless Civil Wars and the France is now one of the world's greatest democracies. France is ranked 16th, just one place behind the United States as of last year. (http://democracyranking.org...)