ANZAC wrote:spending billions fighting in shit holes of the world trying to help them does not work
Dont tell me you buy into that humanitarian excuse do you? if the intention of the West was to, as you put it, stop them slaughtering each other, then why didnt it act before... why did it instead play a part in the countless death and destruction. Saddam was massacring people in the 80's, why not invade then? because most of the people he was killing were Iranians so that was ok, plus he was using weapons he bought from the West (with loans from the West). Why did they impose sanctions that resulted in hundreds of thousands of children dying (and failed to have any impact of Saddams grip of power), if they "wanted to help"
The actions of imperialist nations has ferk all to do with 'wanting to help out', its about power... thats the name of the game, always has been, always will be as long as this system remains.