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How was Korea our responsibility, one it was necessary to fight the spread of evil and secondly because we accept joint defense agreements as well as upholding our role in the UN at the time. It was a UN operation, not a strictly US one. What many don't understand is a lot of things, like the expansion of socialism and radical Islam would eventually affect us, especially economically, so it is always better to fight those wars before they get to that point and to fight them on someone else's soil.
If you believe in a people's right to self-determination then you must accept the choices they make whether you agree with them or not. That has been the great hypocrisy in American foreign policy for decades; conspiring in and participating in civil wars to overthrow democratically elected governments just because we don't like the fact that they were elected. You think its our responsibility to foist democracy upon the world, but what you should understand is that if a nation's populace can't or won't do the heavy lifting in establishing their own democracy then they are not ready for it. American meddling in the affairs of foreign nations has rarely accomplished anything but exacerbation of the existing problem or sowing the seeds for a bigger problem down the road.
You say Korea was our responsibility, but the United States was one of two parties which divided it in the first place. We placed many of the despotic regimes in power and/or supported them in Latin America and the Middle East, only to declare a "need" to depose them decades down the road. We supported the Mujahideen. The United States creates the meat grinder that eats our soldiers alive because of the arrogant attitude that we need to save the people of the world from themselves, but Americans still don't get it. Minding our own business would be the greatest advance in national security in the history of this nation.
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