Yeah, U.K. is in a similar predicament. Maybe smaller scale but you also have the ghost of the Empire in the shadows.This is not just the US I'm talking about here, the UK is little or no better, they just operate on a smaller scale. Although largely a situation it it's own making I do understand US policy on such interventions - it's damned if it does and damned if if it doesn't. In such cases it may as well only do so when there's a vital interest at stake.