Reply to Alexis's Blog 5

I really like the points you made in this blog and these too are questions I struggle with and ask myself. I feel like we think we have good intentions and believe we are "helping", while acutually we are kind of being selfish. I think a lot of whether or not intervening is right depends on the situation. As your third question states, I feel intervening with a humanitarian crisis is necessary, but that is a good question. How bad does it have to be?... I do not know... All your questions are really good and they make my brain hurt! I agree with you that the US should focus more on its own problems, because we probably have the same problems as other countries if not worse yet we think that our problems are solved and other countries problems are worse. However, we have so many issues it is not even funny. I also really like your point that us intervening and pointing out the problems of other countries really just makes us feel better about ourselves and that our problems are not that bad. These are extremely good questions that need a lot of thought. Thank you for bringing these questions up!