Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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