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| People criticized the US for it's lack of a response to the genocide in Rwanda and Sudan, which is partially the fault of US militarization in the region. You also have the disastrous campaign against Somalia. |
People complain when the U.S. tries to police the world and they complain when we don't. Its a lose-lose situation. |
Actually, with recent events on the Middle East and North Africa, I haven't heard that many people criticizing the US government's actions*, but rather praising it for its decidedly (on the whole) non-military stance. And the recent military action is looked on positively, since permission and agreements with the necessary powers and councils were sought beforehand. It goes back to the earlier days when the US government would merely send in troops to sort things out. To quote The Bearded One (the other one): there are alternatives to fighting. Although that does raise an interesting dilemma. Years ago, the US government lent aid to the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the form of weaponry, to fight off the Soviets. Now, they're saying that they're willing to send the same aid to Syrian rebels. That's the only instance I can think of that people have been a little iffy about US intervention.
* I have also heard criticism of US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan - which I can understand. In the beginning they went in with a more or less gung-ho policy, and then realised that that's making more enemies than friends, and quickly changed their strategy to one that has more emphasis (than earlier) on winning the hearts and minds front. In a place like Afghanistan, one senior MOD General said, 'that's where the real war is being fought, and where it will be won'. When Obama came into power, that ceased in favour of a quick withdrawal and bombing of high placed targets - often causing a lot of collateral damage, which negated a lot of the hearts
and minds work that took place under the Bush administration.
And here concludes the Outside View Looking In portion of the news  .
As to this business, I had known about the child army thing for a long while - there's often a news documentary on the happenings, there - but I confess I hadn't heard about the Invisible Children thing (and the first thing I did when I heard about it was find out some balancing information about them and retweet it  ).
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