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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
The thing is that not all of these issues can be attributed to our intervention in Iraq or anywhere else. These countries were ruled by brutal dictators that kept the population in line through kidnap, torture and mass murder. Thats all these people have known for generations. So when no-one is there to keep the fear, its replaced by others taking their place. That is the true result of what we have today. It stems from generations of abuse of the population in those countries.
Its easy to blame the USA and the UK, but the world was a **** place in those countries long before we intervened.
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That begs the question, why didn't we go into Cambodia when Pol Pot was on his mass genocide mission? Why aren't we getting involved with the Ituri conflict, the Kivu conflict or the internal conflict in Myanmar? Sudan and Mexico are two of the worlds most deadly countries because of corrupt governments but we don't seem to worry about them.
I fully understand the interference from the West (mainly America) for removing the Persian Shah and replacing him with Ruhollah Khomeini. We get involved where it suits us financially and never it seems, on moral grounds.
How can we turn our backs on some murderous dictators whilst waging war on others?