Originally posted by Kovu The Lion
If you look at us over in Iraq, our soldiers are not only fighting, but helping to rebuild the community. We even have PeaceCorps members out there rebuilding cities, helping the economy, and trying to establish a government in some cities and establishments, and some, thankfully, have been succesful!
What else were we supposed to do? We overthrew the government and created chaos in Iraq when Saddam was evicted from office. It's not like we had much of a choice when it came to staying in Iraq... if we had just left Iraq after Saddam was evicted, the world would be against us. Besides, honestly, there are and have been much more needy non-Iraqi nations that we haven't helped. Why don't we do anything about the terrible events occuring in Africa, or parts of Asia? IDK how many Iraqis died from Saddam's reign, but 1 million people died in the rwandan genocide , and the US did nothing at all about that.