@Oneiric Intervene or commit our own atrocities? There is an old saying. If you are fighting with everyone then you are the problem. 7 wars in 12 months makes the US the one committing the atrocities.

@Oneiric Wealth is not money and money is not wealth. Wealth is what you create and generate that lifts all of mankind. Be it a better mouse trap or a higher calling. Meddling in other people's affairs makes you poorer. The US is becoming impoverished and loose from its moral underpinnings as it enters war after war after war. Making yesterday's enemies today's friend without that person undergoing any kind of change. Sadly the US is about to learn that lesson and nations around the world lose trust in the US and its aims and ambitions. As one Wise Man once said. "What shall it gain a man (nation) to attain the whole world and lose his (its) soul?". The US is losing its soul. It has started 7 wars in the last 12 months. It is sending in masked thugs to terrorise people on the pretext of getting rid of illegal aliens. It is capturing the leaders of foreign nations based on the lies the US has spread.

@hippyjoe1955 Unfortunately, constraint systems do not bow to what you say. I am not being facetious when I say that I wish the world were so simple. But, good thoughts and intentions do not our world make. Also, and here's my sticking point, wheres the line? Where do you draw the line? If one refuses to interfere, you get atrocities innumerable. Do you call the police when someone is screaming in the home next door? Do you ask someone not to abuse their dog? Do you walk away? Here's the thing with creating an ethical system - scale. You cannot act one way on a personal level, be hesitant to act on a communal level, and refuse to act on a nation-state level. The thing about having an ethical structure is that you have to stick to it. Tell me how yours works in this world, on all levels. Note that I am not encouraging the lack of ethics. I am just pointing out how sticky things get if you don't think it through all the way. Bat an eye and what you know now crumbles.