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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.