Challenge

I challenge you people (YOU PEOPLE!) to convince me of the following:


The United States has a responsibility to commit manpower to peacekeeping efforts worldwide, regardless of whether or not it precipitated the non-peaceful conditions to begin with.


I offer the following statements (without proof) for my argument to the contrary:


1) Any peacekeeping efforts by the U.S. would need to be paid for
2) Only U.S. taxpayers or semipermanent consumers can pay for sustained U.S. peacekeeping efforts
3) The only responsibilities the U.S. governing apparatus inherently has are to its taxpayers or semipermanent consumers.
4) If the U.S. governing apparatus precipitates any non-peaceful conditions, it adds to that list of responsibilities.
5) Otherwise, it doesn't.
6) If the U.S. government indeed commits manpower to peacekeeping efforts, the need of which it did not precipitate, such commitment is extraneous and ancillary to its real responsibilities.
7) I am awesome, and therefore am correct.


Kidding. But for real, 1-6.


Done.