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This expectation that the US (amongst others) will step in to fix this is weird. I'm not American, but the history of US-led interventions isn't great, and I t
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
This expectation that the US (amongst others) will step in to fix this is weird.
I'm not American, but the history of US-led interventions isn't great, and I think it's reasonable that the US doesn't really want to be involved in yet another 3rd world (in the original sense) country that's eating itself.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThe piece isn’t calling for US intervention, though.
- aikinai 4y agoThe subtitle is “What Washington and Its Arab Partners Must Do to Stop the Shootout.”
- dragonwriter 4y agoYes, that’s the subtitle, and the discussion in the text, to the extent it addresses the subtitle at all (its actually a lot more about how the problem has been contributed to by the US and its Arab Partners than it is about the subtitle), what it suggests needs to be done isn’t, implicitly or explicitly, “conduct a US-led intervention”. You are aware that the US (alone and through partners) does thing around the world aside from direct armed intervention, so that a subtitle about what the US should do with regard to a situation does not, inherently, imply direct intervention.