The real cost of IRAQ: PTSD and the second war

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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?

Obviously not. Which doesn't mean the US might not have reason to invade any particular dictatorship.

Because once we do, the welfare of its people is absolutely our responsibility.

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.