The United States spends more money on its military than any other country in the world, beating out China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia by a massive gap. This massive amount of money is spent upgrading, maintaining and training without a doubt the best military on the planet, so it's no question that the United States is the military colossus of the world. And this enormous power is used to police essentially everyone else. We take on the role of policeman, yet this role is supposed to be staffed by the United Nations and their peacekeeping forces. So why spend all this money and time and American lives fighting wars that aren't ours?
In the thousands of years humans have existed on this earth, since day one there has been conflict. First individual conflict, then tribes began to form, then nations and these groups have fought again and again for a multitude of reasons. Resources, religion, territory; the list of reasons is endless. Where we have the most troops stationed overseas are in so-called ''hotspots'' where the most intense and frequent conflict occurs, namely the Middle East and Africa. We as a nation try to take the moral high road, calling it our duty to protect the downtrodden and conflict-plagued in these areas, yet this duty is already assigned to the United Nations.
Through them, if countries of the world as a whole agree that a conflict or issue is worth interfering, the UN Security Council will send a peacekeeping force. The US is a permanent member on this council, so our participation in these decisions is already occurring. Because of this, the intervention of US forces in conflicts is both redundant and unnecessary, costing a heinous amount of capital, resources, and most importantly, lives. So why waste all of these things?
On a second note, other countries' politics are simply not the United State's politics, and therefore, the US has no right to intervene. These areas have been tearing themselves apart for thousands of years, except for some few centuries of unity. Empires have endlessly fought over these areas, whether it be for religion, resources, or territory. First it was the Greeks. Then the Romans, Persians, Arabs, Ottomans, etc.
Our intervention is not going to solve the core issues at hand. To pull from the Monroe Doctrine set by the United States at the beginning of the 19th century, these areas would not and should not receive outside intervention besides what is dictated by the United Nations and its member states. So stop wasting precious lives and resources towards a fruitless and futile task, and instead put them to bettering our own people and our own nation.
