I really think the US just needs to stop trying to help other countries. It very, very rarely goes well for us. Obviously, the example everyone always gives is Vietnam, but that's not even the worst of it. See, in Vietnam, we were sticking our faces into a conflict that we didn't have any business with and didn't entirely understand in the first place. And we got our self-righteous asses kicked to the curb, as we rightfully deserved to. So we booked out of there and just pretended that it never happened.
But there's so many more wonderful examples of this. The bay of pigs readily springs to mind, when we tried to arm a small Cuban rebellion and they all got ruthlessly slaughtered in less than a day. Not only did we end up totally screwing up a bunch of people by making them suicidally overconfident, we also made our already disastrous relationship with Cuba even worse. Can we just keep our hands to ourselves for a bit?
And hey, what about Saddam Hussein?We friggin' ARMED that guy. It was almost like a movie. We helped to foster and nurture him, and then we turned on each other. The mentor battling the pupil.* Of course, being the US, we beat the everloving crap out of him and had him executed. And many, many, many, many people got shot in the face. America needs to go back to preschool an learn how to keep its hands to itself.
*In this context, "mentor" means "crazy uncle who sells the kids firecrackers" and "pupil" means "mentally disturbed child".
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