The United States is too involved in Middle Eastern affairs

The United States, in fact, is a democracy though it is not a pure Democracy. A Democracy is an ideal in which people hope to obtain it is more abstract than just being a simple form of government. As it is today the united states functions more as a Democratism but still holds the ideals and values of a Democracy. A Democracy is not a form of government but a way for society to function without a rule of law because a democracy is a system where people have a mutual responsibility to their neighbors and accept the task of being part of a society. A government only comes in to play to help guide people to reach a point where it will no longer be needed to enforce these responsibilities on the people. The constitution is a good example of this, it is a document to ensure that the country and the people within the country never fall below a certain point and always keep democracy as their ultimate goal. This can be seen in the constitution itself when the founders gave the right to congress to make laws as the times changed signifying the difference between a document like the constitution and other documents that govern peoples life like the bible or the qua-ran in the middle east. The constitution unlike those other documents was founded to be amended with the times and the founding fathers even belied that by laying the framework for a democracy it would be the job of the people to move the government closer and closer to the ideal society of Democracy. This societal idealism functions on the basis that all men are created with certain rights. To achieve this ideal is to come to the universal recognition, through any country or any society, to have the same rights. This is true because if just one man is not created equal than the whole concept on which a Democracy attempts to function will be eroded away from beneath it. These truths which are self evident should not be selective to those who, under the random circumstances of their birth, are born in the middle east or anywhere which creates a culture of caste systems and people at their fundamental level are better than their neighbor. This is where the government of the united states must intervene, in cases of rights violations, it is the responsibility of the PEOPLE in a democratic nation to pursue the rights of all humanity which will ultimately define and secure their own right and the way to do this is use the body which the people have created to deal with matters at that level, the government. Your last post is full of red herrings which do not speak to my claims but try to distract from the point. The point you make about people owning slaves and lack of woman's suffrage does not take away from the responsibility of a democratic society to protect it's values. All it means is that the framework for this ideal society was initially not as good as it could have been, but as the country has grown and the society has changed and made advancements the framework was there for the federal government to move it's society closer to this ideal. For example in the 1960's the federal government had the power to end Jim crow laws because they were seen to be going against the ideal societal model of a Democracy, and it is because of this power of the federal government that helped end a lot of racial inequality even in places where it was acceptable by the majority of people. Another point where you make a distraction is the fact of why we chose the middle east rather than other parts of the world to be involved in. That is extreme nonsense to say that we are ONLY being involved in the middle east. We are very involved in world affairs for the reasons i laid out above, but the middle east is a much more volatile region in the world and have housed militant groups which have sworn to destroy the principles which the american society was founded on. These regions are predominantly ruled by a document, the qua-ran , which is considered to be timeless and written long ago but still has the ability to be interpreted and used the same way as hundreds of years ago. It does not lay a framework, like the constitution, for a society to move it self to an ideal form of self governance but instead shackles the society into the customs and methods of the past even as the world changes around it. This also makes the point that just because there are other places which have the same problems doesn't make the case that we shouldn't pursue these values in the middle east because no matter what task you hope to accomplish there must always be a starting point and i do believe we do not trade or even acknowledge Cuba because of some of these reasons. These affairs, once again are not of the middle east or of the united states or of the united nations but are affairs of humanity. If a society recognizes that every person in their species is born with certain qualities, rights, then it is the duty of that society to protect those rights because failure to do so contradict the values that that society holds so dear. As well by picking small segments out of context from my position and responding to the words in that sentence rather than the meaning behind those particular words, you are not addressing the issue but attempting to skew my words and uses them in ways that would not make your point but makes your argument a stawman.