https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/29/obama-never-understood-...
He's super smart, had great intentions, and messed things up completely.
What exactly do you suggest Obama should have done with "the power of the USA to stabilize it?" Invade? How would trying to 'fix' Syria be any different than trying to fix Iraq or Afghanistan?
But that's just my opinion. My point being that "let's not intervene and let it play out" ended up with an amazingly bad outcome because the fear of a bad outcome from an intervention. Clearly a bad decision. A good decision, whatever that might have been, would have a better outcome. If the argument is that no better outcome was possible then that seems pretty wrong on the face of it.
Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan (e.g.) are fairly different places.
How many times do we have to go down this road, tear apart countries, fuck them up more, and leave with everything in worse shape than before?
The US does not have the right to interfere and has proven over and over again that it will do all of the wrong things while trying to force other people with different ways of living and thinking to behave in a western way.
Sometimes, yes. A more powerful entity has a moral right to act to stop cruelty and abuse if they can.
I think acting to dismantle the Taliban, for example, is completely justifiable morally.
I guess the US gets to unilaterally decide what's right and wrong for the world, and kill however many people it takes to demonstrate the shining hope that is Western democracy!
By your logic if Japan hadn't attacked the US then the US should have just stood aside and let the Germans take Europe in WW-II.
Every time we've intervened in civil wars, the outcome has been bad, with one exception -- Korea.
The problems with your thinking are:
#1 It's how the neo-cons think and is the justification for all of the US terrorism in the past 40+ years.
#2 Who are you to say what the best outcome for another people are? Which people? What group in Syria will have this great outcome now that it's controlled by Isis?
#3 How many people did you get to kill to experiment with nation building? Do you really understand the internal power dynamics of countries like Syria, Iraq? Or are you practicing a form of Imperialism?
The power of the USA is what destabilized it, by creating a breeding ground for all sorts of fun militias in Iraq.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-us-supports-the-islami...
>Ultimately, whether one pallet drifted into ISIS hands by accident in a recent airdrop is a moot point. Billions in cash, weapons, equipment, and vehicles have already been intentionally supplied to the many groups that ISIS represents, as planned as early as 2007. ISIS is the purposeful creation of the United States in its pursuit of regional hegemony in the Middle East, and ISIS’ atrocities were predicted long before the first shots were fired in 2011 in the Syrian conflict, long before the term “Islamic State” went mainstream.