We Should Stay Out Of Humanitarian Disasters

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The United States should stay out of humanitarian disasters when we have no national security interests at stake. We at times get involved with too many world conflicts and it seems like the Unites States cannot just stay out of conflict. We should not get involved unless we feel like we are threaten. We entered WWII because of the Japanese Attacking us. Hitler was always a threat during WWII because he could have taken over Europe and then eventually to North America. If there was an incident like that, we should get involved. We should learn how to pick the issues to deal with. If it is not completely threatening to us, we should stay out of it unless it gets too

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