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Is the U.S. too involved in foreign politics?

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But what gives the US the right to enforce any kind of rules? That's what we have the UN etc... for. It's not up to America to decide what is okay for the rest of the world, just because democracy is a great system of government doesn't mean you have the right to force it upon the world.
 
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But what gives the US the right to enforce any kind of rules? That's what we have the UN etc... for. It's not up to America to decide what is okay for the rest of the world, just because democracy is a great system of government doesn't mean you have the right to force it upon the world.

The U.N relies on member nations for troops and authority, so naturally, the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, have more say and more power than the others do. And they can direct & control things as they see fit, usually.
 
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The U.N relies on member nations for troops and authority, so naturally, the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, have more say and more power than the others do. And they can direct & control things as they see fit, usually.

True. And the only thing that appears to be stopping the US, Britain and France going into Syria (good intentions, most definitely, but nothing good would come from it for us at least) is that Russia and China love to mug "the West" off at every occasion possible :)
 
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China is a huge supporter of state sovereignty though, and that's why it's dismissive of intervention into other state's domestic issues. The West focuses a bit more on human sovereignty, which arose from the mistakes of Rwanda and Bosnia and turned into R2P - the idea that states have a responsibility to protect, and intervention should occur when a state loses its ability to do that. The scope however, is only genocides, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansings. There hasn't been much international criticism on the atrocities in Syria, compared to Gaddafi, and R2P certainly doesn't mean regime change - which it undoubtedly became in Libya. It's not even that the West is united in doing something, as there are those who criticize the West in taking advantage of Russia and China's vetos. There are many in the West who see Syria as potentially damaging US interests.
 

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I believe so.

I believe that we should only get involved when our direct national security is threatened.
 
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