I think it would've made a more convincing argument for our humanitarian goals if we had intervened in the Congo than the war in Iraq did. However, our government has a primary obligation to deal with perceived threats to the our own country. (I'm not going to get into an argument over whether the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was real or imagined.) Since our armed forces are stretched too thin to do both, I'd hope more European nations would get involved in the Congo.
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