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Originally Posted by bolo121
Sadly that is true. After all US moved as soon its oil was in danger not once but twice.
However despite a lot of pious hand wringing nobody did anything about Rwanda for example.
The force i mentioned would be meant to stop precisely this kind of thing which in the ordinary case mighty powers would not want to be involved in as it was not in their pragmatic self interest to do so.
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Hey, we wanted to call those incidences "genocides." The UN wouldn't. Do you know why? Because the UN charter states that it has to act if there's an ongoing genocide. Don't wait for the US. The holier than thou security council should take a more active role in preventing genocides from happening.
If we take the bull by the horn, we're bullies. If we sit back and wait, no one does anything and it's still our fault. It's the ol' "damned if you do, damned if you don't" deal we always get.
What would have happened if we took out Hussein in GW1? We would be demonized as an imperial power hungry for oil and regional domination. So we had to go back 12 years later to kick his ass once more. Guess what? We were demonized as an imperial power hungry for oil and regional domination.
Why do you think we don't give a flying rats ass about what the world thinks?