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same question was asked most likely in the 80s and 90s. Why should we care about afganstan? Why should we care aabout the Taliban?
Come 9/11 we suddenly cared didn't we?
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Uh, the US funded the Afghans in the 80's. We DID intervene in their war. Look what it got us. Intervening in Afghanistan didn't prevent terrorist attacks, it helped cause them.
Same will happen if we intervene in Somalia. Civil wars are terrible, but we should never intervene in them because to do so imbalances them to the point that one side can depict all the terms of the peace. Americans can't find Somalia on a map, how are they suppose to decide which side is the "good" guys?