Venezuela's going to hell...

[Ultimate Paragon]

There's no way a direct intervention from America could possibly end well. It always results in an even bigger mess than was there in the first place.

Except in Colombia, Yugoslavia, Libya...

Libya and Yougoslavia were total disasters, they didn't work at all. I don't know about Colombia, but I assume you mean the ATF?

No, I was referring to Pablo Escobar.  Besides, Yugoslavia's gotten better, and while Libya's not perfect, it certainly isn't Iraq.

[gyeonghwa]

Ukraine and now Venezuela too? And what's almost as bad is the media isn't reporting it!

Actually, they have been. Though there's also a bunch of radical leftist idiots on Tumblr who seem to think it's actually an overthrow orchestrated by the US government.

You mean the same radical leftist who doesn't realize that the protests in Cambodia and subsequent violence suppression of the protest was caused by East Asian nations and not the United States? The United States have fucked up a lot of places, but they're not they only ones to do that.

[Lt. Fred]

There's no way a direct intervention from America could possibly end well. It always results in an even bigger mess than was there in the first place.

Except in Colombia, Yugoslavia, Libya...

Libya and Yougoslavia were total disasters, they didn't work at all. I don't know about Colombia, but I assume you mean the ATF?

No, I was referring to Pablo Escobar.  Besides, Yugoslavia's gotten better, and while Libya's not perfect, it certainly isn't Iraq.

Yeah, the South American element to the War on Drugs hasn't exactly been a great victory either.

[Ultimate Paragon]

There's no way a direct intervention from America could possibly end well. It always results in an even bigger mess than was there in the first place.

Except in Colombia, Yugoslavia, Libya...

Libya and Yougoslavia were total disasters, they didn't work at all. I don't know about Colombia, but I assume you mean the ATF?

No, I was referring to Pablo Escobar.  Besides, Yugoslavia's gotten better, and while Libya's not perfect, it certainly isn't Iraq.

Yeah, the South American element to the War on Drugs hasn't exactly been a great victory either.

In some ways, it has.  The drug trade is vastly diminished in Colombia, thanks partially to the destruction of the Medellín and Cali Cartels.  Things are much better down there.

[Canadian Mojo]

There's no way a direct intervention from America could possibly end well. It always results in an even bigger mess than was there in the first place.

Except in Colombia, Yugoslavia, Libya...

Libya and Yougoslavia were total disasters, they didn't work at all. I don't know about Colombia, but I assume you mean the ATF?

Maybe they should go back to indirect support like when they helped the locals roust the Soviets from Afghanistan...

[Lt. Fred]

Until someone can suggest something that won't make the situation worse, don't do anything.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Until someone can suggest something that won't make the situation worse, don't do anything.

Yeah, this is not a time to be going off half-cocked.

[Art Vandelay]

There's also something to be said for not sticking our collective dicks into other countries' affairs. Contrary to what a lot of people in America seem to think these days, it's not a bad thing to not go throwing troops at problems that are none of your damn business in the first place.

[Canadian Mojo]

There's also something to be said for not sticking our collective dicks into other countries' affairs. Contrary to what a lot of people in America seem to think these days, it's not a bad thing to not go throwing troops at problems that are none of your damn business in the first place.

B-b-but what will we do to distract ourselves from our own nation's problems if we can't pull a "white man's burden" on another?

Same as always, blame the gays.

[Sigmaleph]

There's also something to be said for not sticking our collective dicks into other countries' affairs. Contrary to what a lot of people in America seem to think these days, it's not a bad thing to not go throwing troops at problems that are none of your damn business in the first place.

B-b-but what will we do to distract ourselves from our own nation's problems if we can't pull a "white man's burden" on another?

Reality TV?

[Canadian Mojo]

There's also something to be said for not sticking our collective dicks into other countries' affairs. Contrary to what a lot of people in America seem to think these days, it's not a bad thing to not go throwing troops at problems that are none of your damn business in the first place.

B-b-but what will we do to distract ourselves from our own nation's problems if we can't pull a "white man's burden" on another?

Reality TV?

Now there is some hyprocracy for you:
Using WMD's on your own population when you have used that as a reason for intervening militarily in the internal affairs of foreign countries on multiple occasions.

[Ultimate Paragon]

I hope things get better down there.