Foreign Interventions: A Comparative Analysis

Though different concepts may seem to have the same philosophy, the threshold between foreign interventions are essentially a different ideology dependent on the fact of the matter. Joseph Conrad, author of The Heart of Darkness, Demonstrated the treachery committed in the Congo through by the Belgian regime torturous acts of using the natives as pawns in their plan to gain utter control of the Congo. France and Algeria once fought a bloody war to declare the ownership of Algeria, all of which was documented in the article “French-Algerian truce” conveying the frantic state of the country. Another event was the Iraqi Freedom, an operation to eliminate the Iraq threat by preventing them from cause mass destruction set by former President George

However, colonies without colonialism is the full assault on a nation without the exchange of culture and intentions resulting in manipulation, all of which was mentioned in the passage “Colonies Without Colonialism: A trade Diaspora Model of Fourth Millennium B.C. Mesopotamian Enclaves in Anatolia”. Ultimately, the Congo consisted of imperialism, the Algerian War and Operation Iraqi Freedom had colonialism leaving none having components of colonies without colonialism.

First of all, The Congo was a case that had imperialism dwelling in the roots of the culture. King Leopold II was a monarch from Belgium who decided to bring his regime to the Congo where he would make the natives work as slaves for his labor. In The Heart of Darkness, Marlow was the main character was provided a chance to visit the Congo and gladly accepted due to his thirst of exploration. Although, when he arrived he realized the natives there were essentially being used as pawns and replied with the following remark “They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease