[viccis]

It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide.

>It's your mess, now clean it up.

The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever. If we take action in Iran, it will be solely to our benefit, and it may or may not improve those peoples' lives. In all likelihood, it will be another Libya or Afghanistan situation in which we take what we want and leave a power vacuum in our wake.

[ghusto]

> It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide.

10,000 dead in 2 days.

> The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever

Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.

[viccis]

>10,000 dead in 2 days.

Again, "genocide" doesn't have to do with the scale of the killing. It's a specific word with its own meaning.

>Nobody can make you do anything, but the moral obligation is there. People say things like "we're not the world police", as if overthrowing the elected government of a country is nothing. It cuts both ways.

Governments don't have "morals". They do whatever is most expedient. We have never done something because it's the moral thing to do, and we never will. That's just not how hegemonic powers like the US work.