Originally Posted by
t43562
Words are interesting. Being a 'policeman' is bad and watching someone getting beaten up in an alley is good as long as one is sad about it and says one cares. One might as well admit that one doesn't really care very much.
I suppose my view on all this is coloured by being from Zimbabwe and I admit that I'm a latte sipping civilian.
t, a New York policeman may feel very sad watching a video of someone getting beaten up in a different State and probably really does care, but is not about to jump in his patrol car and high tail it there.
The point that most of here hold is that we should not be a de facto world policeman. The UN has not appointed us as such so we have no rights to act as such.
While you, as a latte sipping civilian, (whatever that is) seem to both care and believe in intervention, many or your tea drinking compatriots are not.