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Personally, I am quite against Western Intervention. I guess my opinion would be different if i had a financial stake in. After WWII The UN was supposed to prevent atrocities from happening, of course the only atrocities that were stopped were those that were strategically important for security and financial reasons. I guess I'm thinking of the U.N.s refusal to characterize the Rwandan genocide as a genocide, the mass murders of Khmer Rouge and the current "civil war" in Sudan and the intentional killing of civilians in that conflict. The desire promote "democracy and stability" often seems to destabilize the situation - too much blowback. I'm just cynical and maybe somewhat isolationist, because the interventions often seem too selective or unilateral.