Quote Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz View Post
Before getting involved into something make sure your involvement is going to improve things. That's not been the case with the latest U.S. military interventions.
But at the end of the day if the WORLD rather than the US alone with maybe a few allies was involved in ending real humanitarian crisis, it would have more of a humanitarian effect and less of a political effect IMO. Stopping people from being displaced, sent to mass graves, isolated, discriminated against, etc should be something the entire world doesn't tolerate.

The problem IMO is that the political influence is greater often than the humanitarian crisis. Even the middle east does more in some cases. During the Iraq invasion there were security issues with aid coming from Kuwait crossing the border to Iraq before it was even safe to do so. Yet it's not uncommon for us countries with a lot more ability to help sitting on our hands on doing nothing productive.