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The military should only be used for defending the state.
What do you think? What about protecting foreigners? Who gets to choose?

Ultimately, as long as it is lawful, it is up to the state to determine what is in the national interest, to decide how their military is deployed and in pursuit of what type of mission.

All states have a responsibility to uphold basic human rights for everyone, including those who are not their citizens. The military should be used if necessary to uphold these rights. States would carry some blame if they failed to uphold human rights for everyone.

James Pattison, ‘Whose Responsibility to Protect? The Duties of Humanitarian Intervention’, Journal of Military Ethics, 7 (2008), p262.

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