Helping the people there is an outcome of the US doing the correct thing. That would be the nation-building that's been ignored in our own nation instead of trying to run the rest of the world. Those countries had leaders with a strong hand for a reason. That's what it takes to run a nation of headstrong advocates of their own agenda.
The US served the world best when we were a shining example of things they might want to achieve within their own nation. I doubt that anyone under age 40 or so even remembers the ideals the US used to aspire to.
“we were a shining example of things they might want to achieve within their own nation”
I’m a firm believer that the worst example we displayed was our not staying out of people’s business. Since WW II, where we were attacked, we have been fighting other country’s wars, most civil ones, and not gaining a thing from it except loss of funds and people. The list is huge:
Korea 50-53, Lebanon 1958, Vietnam 64-75, Granada and Beirut in 83, Libya in 86, Panama in 89, Gulf war 91, Somalia 93, Haiti 94, Kosovo in 99.....that’s enough to make a point. I didn’t get into the war on terrorism. Each one of these had nothing to do with us in any considered major need for troop intervention. But we went there and participated in action that had little, if anything, to do with us.
We are so busy riding in on our white horse to save the day that we fail to handle our own problems here at home. And in many cases, these little out world problems are used to hide the government inability to handle them or is a smoke screen for those they don’t want to handle for agenda reasons. Transparency? Not before Trump. He doesn’t have to hide anything. He’s busy turning over rocks to find the worms under them. And he has way too many rocks without the libs giving him accusations to have to address. And while he’s proving them wrong on every count over the last couple of years, we are spending money, time, and manpower for nothing. We spin our wheels, just like we’ve done for about 100 years.
The more it changes, the less gets done.
rwood