Savages? What high horse did you ride in on? If my tax dollars can free an oppressed people, then so be it. I didn't realize that in order to be free, a people had to be Madison Ave quality first.
I second that.
I third that.
Now it is our obligation to free all of the oppressed people in the world? That includes all of Africa, most of Asis, and South America. We can't even free Haiti.