America needs to stop intervening with other nations.

I'm going to clear this up: I'm saying that America would be better off if they stopped occupying other nations without their permission and for extensive amoun of time. I apologize if that is an any way unclear. Perhaps the term "need" was exaggerative. - "We are "end(ing) genocide." + We are not ending genocide. We are bombing Kosovo for the purpose of ending genocide and killing more people than are being saved. It is a ridiculously inefficient effort that is poorly thought out. - Isn't any cause that furthers the human race a righteous and obligatory act by the party that has the ability to do such? + Our occupations are constantly ineffective. The Kosovo intervention is monsterously ineffective. We are promoting democracy in Haiti. And renovating schools in Morocco. It is not our duty or our right to decide Haiti's form of government. And it is not our troop's duty or training t renovate schools. That is abusive. It is hardly our right to intervene in other nation's policies, especially when our great nation is in shambles and our military is significantly overstretched. - "The US has a moral obligation to intervene." + Our nation's intervention is almost always ineffective, tremendously costly, and kills many people. How is it our moral obligation to help renovate schools in Morocco? It is nice but hardly an occupation. And their school system is poor anyway. We have schools in America that require renovation. These schools were built in the 1800s. My school itself was made in 1914. Why are we interfering with Haiti's government when it is not hurting people? We are spending tons of money and they still dont hav a democracy after 14 years. - This isn't an issue of Al Qaeda liking us. [Al Qaida is irrelevant to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict] Al Qaeda is a a group of extremists whose soul purpose is to destroy all those who demoralize their faith. + Al Qaida does not have a sole goal. One of its goals and its main goal even is to set up a global Islamic calaphite but this is an impossible goal if America keeps helping Israel and Palestine and encourage a Jewish state. If we encourage the Jewish state of Israel, then Al Qaida cant have them to be Islamic now can they? This is a voiced concern of Al Qaida. Please research your facts before you state them. - World War 2 was a successful intervention. + Yes. This was a successful intervention and I've always supported it. But the occupation we have now of Germany is ridiculous. To say that no intervention is ever necessary is naieve but constant occupations are ridiculous. Our intervening in World War 2 helped us by heling our allies and who our world colleagues were. It was not intervening another nation. It was helping us. And who knows? Maybe those Nazis would have come for America next. It was a strategic war to help ourselves. Not a mindless intervention with other nations. - Darfur. + Darfur has oil and to help them would be helping ourselves. Hardly a mindless intervention. AND we can help Darfur without engaging in Darfur. We need to help the United Nations take action instead of taking action ourselves with our troops and resources. The Darfur crisis is monstrous and is certainly as genocide and we need to help stop it. But it is helping ourselves with oil, public diplomacy with surrrounding nations. But we cant use our troops and resources to fight someone elses problems. 1)* We protect those who either cannot protect themselves alone or who desperately need it. - No. We dont. Look at Iraq, Vietnam, Belize, Syria, Kosovo, Haiti, Morocco. And we dont even try to step in Darfur or Rwanda. We dont help those in need. We hurt those in need of help. We've destroyed Iraq. Killed dozens of thousands in Iraq. And Iraq simply is not better off or more peaceful with us. Vietnam killed millions of Vietnamese and Americans. And look where they are now. Belize is still in shambles. Syria and Kosovo are still constantly fighting. Haiti cant be called a democracy. Morocco still has pooreducation. And the list goes on. We have troops in 144 countries around the world. Think of the cost in lives and money. A) We provide for Africa alone, more than any other country. - American assistance is always ineffective. Africa is still raging with disease. The money we send is put through corrupted African dictators and stolen. And the culture barrier makes intervention impossible. One time Americans went to show Africans how to use condoms and they used a stick to demonstrate. Weeks later they came back to find a condom over a stick in the middle of the village and the AIDS rate rose significantly. We are hurting them. B) The past contributions America has made have been beneficial to the country and, in fact, led to a higher approval rating amongst other countries. + One example? 2) If we stop intervening, the possible and most likely outcome would leave some parts of the world in shambles. + Like Iraq, Syria, Kosovo, most of Africa and Vietnam are in now? The nations we go to are still in shambles after intervention. - The Middle East alone would fall even quicker than it has already. We took the neccessary precaution by taking Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and now we need to support them as they rebuild and recollect their ways of life. + Sadaam Hussein had nothing to do with America or Al Qaida as we know now. Iraq was a rich nation with very strict laws though. When America makes dumb policy decisions nobody lynches our president. That is barbaric and an archaic concept. We went and destroyed Iraq and are now trying to build it back up. America has no business in Iraq. In the beginning, Bush said the meaning of the war was to find WMDs, promote democracy, and stop terrorism. We learned there were no weapons of mass destruction or terrorism. And their government is very ineffective and we cant help them be effective. The Iraq War was potentially the worst foreign policy decision if not policy decision, period, in American history. Intervening in other nations cost us significant amounts of money when we have a trillion dollar debt and a bad economy. It is ineffective. And it hurts our foreign relationships. ...Look...All of Europe hates America for its foreign policy. Our foreign relationships are in shambles mostly because of our intervention in Iraq. ... We have troops in 144 nations around the world. Think of the cost. ... Most of our interventions are for little things like renovating schools in Morocco. Think of the fuel cost, salary, food, shelter, equipment, tools and still actually renovating the school. ... Think of all the dead Americans who died for somebody else's country. ... It is simply unconstitutional and un-American. "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," I hope you vote pro. Considering that I have answered each of his arguments with a smart and logical answer. And I have presented points of my own that he cant account for. Thank you for reading this debate.