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Originally posted by malvolio: If we're such a force for good in the world, why the hell have we done absolutely nothing about the human tragedy in the Congo? Civil war and its concomitant starvation and disease have killed 3.3 million people there in the past decade, and the US has done nothing! Why not? Oh, I dunno. Maybe because they're black and poor? |
This is the unfortunate situation; if we do anything (such as liberate Iraq) people protest, and rail against the US for "interventionism" and "invading a sovereign nation".
Yet if we don't do something, they cry "Where were you? Why are you letting this happen?"
You can't have it both ways folks.
You could also just as easily argue "Where is the UN? Why are they letting what is going on in the Congo and Rwanda continue?"