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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Another way of putting that is:
Is it the responsibility of the US to invade every dictatorship and take custody?
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Obviously not. Which doesn't mean the US might not have reason to invade any particular dictatorship.
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Because once we do, the welfare of its people is absolutely our responsibility.
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For a time, at least. I'd argue, "not indefinitely". But to say that if the US govt actually cared about the Iraqi people it would have left them to Saddam seems a bit perverse.