> I read his point as, "if we have an obligation to fix other people's problems, we shouldn't be subject to complaints when our foreign adventures go wrong". T

> I read his point as, "if we have an obligation to fix other people's problems, we shouldn't be subject to complaints when our foreign adventures go wrong". That's a bad faith reading imo. They said "action we deem just" not "things we mess up". > Getting involved and helping to solve a problem doesn't need to mean being the police. It generally does when the source of the problem is people. When you're actively preventing people from doing something, that is "policing". Policing isn't just arresting/shooting/bombing, it's the general enforcement of rules. > And I'm not an expert, but I think almost none of the stuff that flowed through USAID was about being "police". That's somewhat beside the point, as the source in both USAID and the "policing" is the US government. You dont name your hand and consider it a different person.