Can anyone name a successful humanitarian military intervention by a western power in the last 50 years?

By successful, I mean actually benefitted the domestic population. I ask because I think its a hard question. You could [i]maybe [/i]make a case for what the UN did in Yugoslavia. After that, I'm struggling.

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SW-User

Saving Kuwait from Iraq

SW-User

@SW-User I was thinking the overthrow of Saddam, but this is a much better example.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@SW-User I'm not sure that was successful. It did kill a lot of people though yes Saddam's move was illegitimate also. Granted, it is a better case than the second Iraq War.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@SW-User No way you can use the second Iraq War. It's probably the worst example of the lot. Things have been made so much worse.

SW-User

@Burnley123 I was tossing out the first thing that came to my mind, though I never said it was a [i]good[/i] example.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@SW-User Fair nuf

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Burnley123
[quote]I'm not sure that was successful.[/quote]

Iraq doesn't control Kuwait last time I checked.