Why Should the U.S. Care What Happens in Burundi?
July 22, 2015
The U.S. State Department has said that Burundi’s elections on Tuesday “lacked credibility” and the voting “will further discredit the government.” Why should the U.S. care what happens in Burundi? Another corrupt election in a corrupt state. What business is it of ours? U.S. foreign interventions include much more than sending troops to places they have no business going. Neutrality should be observed in all things.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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