Pops - Indeed, the UK are every bit as imperialist and (neo)colonist as the US, and being Irish I can attest to that
Shadow - pretty skewed reading of history there but that is one perspective. Another is that rather than being a benign world policeman intent on bringing 'democracy' and 'peace' to the world the US involves itself elsewhere only where THEIR OWN strategic interest is threatened or necessitates intervention. Hence why, in contrast to the cases you cite, there was no intervention to stop genocide in Rwanda, there was no intervention to stop ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, there was/is no intervention to stop the destruction of the Kurds and why it was US guns that plunged much of Central America into the deaths of iron fist rule by various military juntas. And that's before we get to the not insignificant matter of US guns committing war crimes abroad in places like Vietnam, Cambodia and Iraq....
Sorry to be so negative this early in the morning but for what it's worth I think the whole thing is an issue of economics. Guns are big business and make a lot of people rich. Just as war, disease and crime are all profitable for those prepared to enrich themselves on the back of other people's misery so too is gun crime. While that remains the case there'll always be pretty lax control I reckon....
It's perfectly natural to look after your own interests my friend..we all do it..
and guns
do not commit war crimes..people do!!
if they didn't have guns they'd do it with machetes or whatever..
the USA is not the only supplier of guns...
the AK 47 is a favourite in the places you mention...
I don't know where you live but if you live in Europe your living in peace under the umbrella of NATO which would not exist without America..
people all over the World seem intent on killing others for various reasons..usually religion, America can not be expected to save or defend everybody, maybe people should be more tolerant of each other and actually
stop fighting!!
Peace, Kevin