I think what frustrates me is that there are so many insidious human rights violations carried out by tyrants —and the international community is powerless to do anything about it.

The lesson from Vietnam was that we shouldn’t go in without having an interest of our own.

so, it takes security interests, financial interests and political will to do anything about the monsters.

We had all of that for Iraq and got rid of some big monsters. Children are better off, no more mass graves, torture chambers etc.

And we still fucked-it up.

I can’t regret the war because of the reasons I stated above, I am just very frustrated we as a Planet of Humans couldn’t, didn’t and can’t seem to find a better way.