Why so we can launch missile strikes to help free them from the oppressive regime run by a mentally deranged leader?
Note the similarity with the backstory behind all of our recent military aggression.
The standard American exceptionalist narrative is that much of the rest of the world consists of people who are victims of illegitimate regimes. We should pity them (emphasis on humanitarian sentiment) but then we should feel morally superior and allow our indignation to lead to military strikes intended to help them.
Bottom line: Military strikes, the projection of power into remote corners of the world, are simply acts of aggression no matter how they are spun. They are designed to threaten and intimidate the rest of the world in a way that aids American interests, not to help people.
Why so we can launch missile strikes to help free them from the oppressive regime run by a mentally deranged leader?
- No. So we aren't guilty of taking important events within a country and to a country as of little importance except in how we contextualize them through our own American lens. You know, the stuff of foreign policy hawks always interested in meddling in other nations.
Much of it is just not news. Obviously 3rd world countries are going to have weaker institutions and certain kinds of social problems that first world nations won't have.
Thus there is an endless stream of possible "appalling" stories but many more deeply interesting, geopolitically relevant, culturally relevant stories that never get written. Some are just not sensational/sexy enough, but the larger problem is that our media actively drives the narrative of American exceptionalism mostly through the world news section.
Note the similarity with the backstory behind all of our recent military aggression.
The standard American exceptionalist narrative is that much of the rest of the world consists of people who are victims of illegitimate regimes. We should pity them (emphasis on humanitarian sentiment) but then we should feel morally superior and allow our indignation to lead to military strikes intended to help them.
Bottom line: Military strikes, the projection of power into remote corners of the world, are simply acts of aggression no matter how they are spun. They are designed to threaten and intimidate the rest of the world in a way that aids American interests, not to help people.