Chaos is the default position of mankind. If we head toward the sound of it everywhere we hear it then we will be too winded to fight when it really counts....First this, via Wikipedia...
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P or RtoP) is an emerging norm that sovereignty is not a right, but that states must protect their populations from mass atrocity crimes—namely genocide,crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.[1][2][3]Understand that your current Ambassador to the UN, and National Security Advisor are both proponents of R2P.
Now check out this news, via the Wall Street Journal...
President Barack Obama authorized targeted airstrikes and emergency assistance missions in northern Iraq, saying Thursday the U.S. must act to protect American personnel and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the face of advances by violent Islamist militants.Excuse me but the world has been, is and apparently always will be chaotic with people being threatened, killed, raped, tortured and displaced....with states not acting to protect their populations.
Why act to protect an obscure people but ignoring the slaughter of Christians in the same land?
Why the lie about protecting US personnel?
Why the rush to involve ourselves in another tribal conflict between warring religious factions?
Once again American blood and treasure is being used up in a fruitless conflict with poorly defined goals, to save people that quite honestly just aren't worth the effort. It is past time to take the training wheels off the entire world and to tell them that we have our own problems. Help yourselves or die.
The R2P concept is tailor made for continuous war...its PNAC just dressed up and refined to appeal to progressives.
