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ABOUT THE MOTION: This House Believes Western Military Intervention Has Done More Harm Than Good
Since the 1990s, Western countries have been involved in a plethora of military interventions. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria have all offered different experiences of such intervention. Some argue that all these interventions have not essentially solved underlying problems and that the West has merely exacerbated sectarian problems. Others have argued that without the West the human rights agenda would not have been sufficiently protected in these countries. The failure to intervene can throw up its own problems, such as in Rwanda or Yemen. This is one of the great questions that hang over our politics, and one of the new fault-lines in the emerging political battle that is no longer about right or left.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER (Opening for the Opposition)
Tom Harwood is a journalist and political commentator based in Westminster. While he predominantly works as a reporter for the Guido Fawkes website, his writing can also be found in the Spectator, Conservative Home, and the Telegraph. He is a frequent guest on the BBC, Sky, and ITV, including flagship programmes from Good Morning Britain to Newsnight, and BBC Question Time.
ABOUT THE CAMBRIDGE UNION: From its small beginnings as a debating society, the Cambridge Union is the oldest debating society in the world and the largest student society in Cambridge. The Union remains a unique forum for the free exchange of ideas and the art of public debate.
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