How do we "not meddle in things around the world" and at the same time prevent a second holocaust?

Question

I've got a number of thoughts on this.

first, people bag on America for policing the world, then they bag on us for not stopping genocide in Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, etc.

We all hope there's never another Holocaust, however if we stop supporting Israel with Military supplies, there could be one in the very near future.

As soon as we make allies, we're "meddling".

Then again, is it a tragedy that Rome fell? If you were a Roman, yes. To most of us, it doesn't matter.

So how do we deal with this?

Please give logical thought and not rants.

Answer 1

US can avoid meddling with things around the world by learning that they cant go back to the 1980s lala-land and relive the days of being the sole superpower.

Answer 2

Making allies is not meddling.

Arming both sides in the Iran - Iraq war while pretending that we were neutral was meddling.

Arming, financing and training the guerrillas that eventually became Al Qeada was meddling.

Putting Saddam in power, giving him WMD in the form of chemical weapons to use against Iran and then subsequently destroying the country after he was no use to us anymore was meddling.

Helping the Israeli occupation of Palestine by giving away land that did not belong to us was meddling.

Giving Israel more foreign aid each year than the foreign aid sent to all other nations combined was meddling.

Giving Kuwait slant drilling equipment to steal Iraqi oil from across the border to instigate the Iraqi invasion was meddleing.

Edit - Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia etc... are none of our buisness and neither was taking out a nation that never attacked us.

Answer 3

We're in a no win situation.

People complain when America gets involved. People complain when America stays out of things. People complain that we don't GIVE enough money.

Answer 4

It's always this way when there is a Republican in the white house. When it's a Democrat, everything is utopia. Naw, the media isn't biased.

Answer 5

I'll tell you how: we go into places only when we have been *asked* to go *and* when those places have signed a treaty/contract stating how much they will pay us (or what benefits we will get) and how long they expect us to be there helping.