you know what?
i'm not even an american, im israeli - supposedly a provincia of the US, the 51st state....
and just an hour ago, ive got a call from my commander saying ive got report tomorrow morning somewhere near Gaza.
im a fourth year student, but there's a war going on, so thats that.
who cares if the US weaves its webs all around the world, im glad ill have their M16s and above me american made F16 will protect me.
people like saddam are my enemies, with or without the US.
people like him, rose to power following the vacuum that the UK left as they hauled ass out of here to become the mediocre nation they are today.
what you seem to forget is that the strongest will always aim at achieving power.
that means that if it wasnt for the US the world would have been ruled de facto by the USSR or China or Iran...
im mature enough to understand the meaning of "the lesser evil", but it seems you arent.

i dont care about the states, its the principle: had the world intervened the holocaust would have prevented, or greatly lessened thats a fact.
saddam hussein shot missiles at a country with whom he didnt even have a war. people taped their houses in fear of gas, which he said that was inside the missiles... this is someone whose rule must be ended. capitalism is not perfect but it beats the shit out of mass murder or the other stuff that his sons pulled off in that poor country.
to say that the US is imperfect is an understatement but grow up, you can speak your mind there and you enjoy freedoms that people in africa, parts of asia, and parts of south america, havent even dreamed of.
thats the problem with you people in the states and europe, you are so far away from suffering that you have cannot grasp what it means. you sit there feeding from the press and intellectual blogs that give you the so called truth, when you have no idea where that truth starts or ends.
spend a week in gaza or the israeli towns around it, and youl see the same fear on peoples faces.
try to go to work on a bus that explodes once every two months like clockwork OR watch people stand in line for hours on an israeli checkpoint.
youll have to do one of those things - ive done them both - to understand these things you pretend to understand.
otherwise youre all just spoiled kids playing "our government is soooo corrupt" in front of their macbooks...

so what youre saying is, that during ww2, it was a good idea to stay silent in the face of the holocaust, so that germany could "find its own way" to kill another mllion jews.
sometimes nations go astray, and it is the role of other nations to guide them to a peaceful state of being.
such is the case of palestine, darfour, afghanistan and iraq
these countries or regions haves proved several times that they are inable to improve the lives of their populations, must we stand silent while women ar stonned in afghanistan or 14 year olds are sent to commit suicide in packed israeli cafés?
if so, then we are obtuse and do not deserve all the progress we are enjoying...