“And by insisting on repeating that red herring, you excuse the USA from aiding its allies. Way to go, Jim Crow Joe . . .”
It takes a special kind of neocon idiot to believe, nay insist, that pursuit of only real US interests is a red herring.
Such logic, extended, would lead to insistence we intervene any and everywhere for humanitarian reasons. Or, the classic “human rights”.
Why not start with Norklandia? Or any of 100 other actual countries