Oh Joecool7 your so naive. If it wasn't for the British, Canada would probably have been part of America (American had eyes on it but the British Empire kept them in check). If it wasn't for America, Alaska would probably be part of Canada (the British Empire had eyes on Alaska, Russia was in no mood for a fight so sold it to the US, Britain was in no mood to fight the US again).
Point I'm trying to make is you need to get the whole human rights and right to protect out of your way of thinking about wars. And you need to get off your non existent high horse. The vast majority of time wars are fought is precisely because of geo-strategic reasons. Human rights concerns are very much down the bottom of the list. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, support of murderous dictators in Indonesia, South America and the Middle East. It's in order to further American strategic objectives and roll back others. Nothing more.
Just look at one glaring example today. Bahrain is hosting the next F1 Grand Prix. The same Bahrain who's absolute monarch ruling elite is violently suppressing a peaceful democratic uprising. So how come they are getting away with this? Easy explanation. Bahrain is a key US ally in the region. It's hosts the US Fifth Fleet. It's a member of the Saudi dominated pro US GCC. Hence we are barely batting an eye lid. If it's was allied to Iran or Syria or Russia or China, you wouldn't hear the end of it in the press and there's no way F1 would be hosting anything there.
