Intervening in Interventions

I will most likely spend most of my time on this blog exploring why the United States SHOULD intervene in foreign genocides but doesn't. I will use many harsh words in trying to explain why it is so wrong for the U.S. not to intervene, but in this particular blog post, I will explore a potential reason as to why the country doesn't help the victims of genocide.

It doesn't seem like a big deal to have the Superpower of the world intervene in smaller, less threatening countries for the benefit of humanity and to protect human rights. No, the country that the U.S. tries to help will probably not have the power to attack the United States, but other countries may see this as an opportunity to intervene in the problems of the U.S. that they personally do not agree with. The lack of U.S. intervention may then be a result of fear that foreign places will take that as an invitation to attack the country.

The one problem with this theory is that the United States does not recognize these mass killings as genocide, which isn't what necessarily needs to happen for it not to get involved. I am still convinced there are other reasons, less legitimate than this, for the lack of U.S. intervention.