Better yet, why don't we try minding our own damn business across the board? We can't solve all the world's problems (we're barely managing our own), and we usually wind up looking like the bad guy when we try (to those whose country gets suddenly over-run with heavy-handed militarism from afar).
What I would really like to see is the plain-spoken truth. Isn't it funny that middle and southern Africa have no significant deposits of oil. WMDs my grandmother's backside - conservative estimates of 800,000 slaughtered in Rwanda. We did absolutely nothing. Even the UN did nothing.
Quite obviously our actions are not driven by great humanitarian ideals. The unstated question, the 'hanging chad', as it were, is what exactly does drive our nation's interlopement into the affairs of only certain, select countries? Is it really just about oil, so that we can maintain our status and lifestyle of absurdly disproportionate consumption of the world's resources? Or is it, currently, their geographic proximity to the former USSR; strategic beachheads on the way to conquering a continent?
Inquiring minds (should) want to know.
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