The US should stop intervening in every little crisis and let countries do for themselves

It has been empirically proven that countries that can take care of their own domestic problems show greater signs of stability and prosperity in the future. The United States' intervention in Kenya, Pakistan, and the Israeli/Palestinian war is going to cause more problems in the future than the present situations. I believe that minimum intervention is OK as long as it is restricted to only humanitarian aid or minimal diplomacy. We should not be going into other countries and tell them how to run their government. That is not democracy because the people lose all say in how they want their country to be run. Our form of government can't work in all countries and we should therefore allow countries to solve and iron out their own political issues. If a crisis such as the one found in Darfur breaks out and spreads to another country, that is when intervention is necessary, but if the violence had stayed in Sudan's borders, then we should never have intervened. It is pure logic that we wouldn't want someone coming into our homes and telling us that because we have a dirty kitchen, we should completely alter the way we live.

Your logic is not sound and is in fact immoral.

Your suggestion that it is not OK to interfere unless the situation crosses borders is also nonsense.

You use Darfur as an example, so I will also use it.

There is a slow-motion genocide going on in Darfur. It has already caused cross-border problems (the border with Chad), but that will be put aside. Let's assume it never crossed borders, and that the genocide was geographically restricted. You are saying, with a straight fact I suppose, that it is wrong of the US to intervene even if it is to stop a genocide.

I refuse to accept such a morally blind view of reality and the world, and I likewise cringe at the thought of being so callous and undisturbed by the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people...you might say it's not any of our business, but I completely reject such a notion of not only despicable, but tantamount to complicity. The US is the only power on Earth capable of intervening in such situations. We have no legal requirement to intervene, but a moral right exists.

Secondly, your implicit assertion that US "interference" begets disaster is not actually clearly exemplified with an examination of history. Compare South Korea (successful, wealthy, democratic) with North Korea (starving, dictatorship) and you can clearly see the results of US "interference". Compare East and West Germany during the 1970's and you can see the results of US "interference".

I agree that the US should be cautious in it's actions overseas, and careful to avoid unwelcome results, but your pie-in-the-sky, naive view of the situation is a foolish invitation to disaster.